Simile metaphor and personification?

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I have an assignment to write poem using simile, metaphor, and personification at least once.

This is the poem:

[FONT=&quot]As I watch you decompose[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _I hold your hand[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]With eyes as red as a rose[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Until life has all but froze[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _And no longer can I stand[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I hold on to supplicate[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _Yet this is my remand[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Secretly I hate[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _To hold your hand[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I’m holding an illusion[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _Holding a fantasy land[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I found my lands contusion[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And I found this collusion[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _I can no longer withstand[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]These fingers tight and squeezing[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _I know it’s time to disband[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Futile clinging[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] _To your hand[/FONT]

These are the lines that I think fit the requirement:

Simile: With eyes as red as a rose
Metaphor: Holding a fantasy land
Personification: I found my lands contusion

Are these truly simile, metaphor, and personification?

I don't think metaphor is right, but I can't figure out how to get one in there that goes along with the rhyme scheme
 
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I have an assignment to write poem using simile, metaphor, and personification at least once...
Generally, Airy, we don't offer help with homework assignments on this site. It's sort of like cheating, you know?

Turn in your best work, without help from anyone, and let your instructor be your guide, not AW.
 

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Generally, Airy, we don't offer help with homework assignments on this site. It's sort of like cheating, you know?

Turn in your best work, without help from anyone, and let your instructor be your guide, not AW.

Oh, I don't see this as cheating, but I do see the point on asking aw'ers for help on a homework assignment.

I didn't mean to make it appear that getting my assignment done was the priority. If all I wanted was to get the assignment done my metaphor would be "he was a tree" and my personification "the sun greeted the day."

I honestly wanted to know if these could be technically labeled the way I labeled them; assignment or not.
 

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Airy,

Is part of your assignment that your poem has to rhyme? Because if it isn't, perhaps you should rethink stuffing those assigned elements into a rhyming poem. Rhyming poems are very difficult to master and forcing rhyme for the sake of maintaining a rhyme scheme is always a bad idea.