Romeo and Juliet

What figure of speech is used in these lines from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?

But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the furthest east begin to draw
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
Away from the light steals home my heavy son,

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There are quite a few figures of speech here:

allusion

metaphor

personification