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| Askew, like sheep through a hurdle. | 1 |
| Bent like an old bruised lantern. | 2 |
| Blue as the sky in spring. | 3 |
| Bright as an iceberg. | 4 |
| Brighter than the sun through wheat. | 5 |
| Burrow like a weasel. | 6 |
| Bursting like a bean-pod. | 7 |
| Calm as deep rivers. | 8 |
| Clogged like honey. | 9 |
| Crackling as artillery. | 10 |
| Dark as a wood. | 11 |
| Delicately, as fingers play sad music. | 12 |
| Flashing, like a newly-awakened flame. | 13 |
| Flashed like the spray of a fountain. | 14 |
| Flips away like whalebone from the finger. | 15 |
| Fluttering like a raven wounded. | 16 |
| Fresher than the day-star. | 17 |
| Frizzled like a lawyer’s wig. | 18 |
| Gentle as a turtle-dove. | 19 |
| Gently as a rabbit goes. | 20 |
| Gladdening to our eyes as the flowers in May. | 21 |
| Gleamed upon the water like a bride at her looking-glass. | 22 |
| Glistening, like a maid at her own ideas. | 23 |
| Glistened like dormer-windows piled with snow. | 24 |
| Gone as a shadow goes. | 25 |
| Happy as a May-pole. | 26 |
| Hazy, like an oil-lamp full of fungus. | 27 |
| Innocent as an infant. | 28 |
| Laughed like a bell. | 29 |
| Leaped in the air like a shot rabbit. | 30 |
| Lifting my heart to her, as the spring wind lifts the clouds. | 31 |
| Light as cobwebs. | 32 |
| Loud as a culverin. | 33 |
| Louder than harvest thunderstorm. | 34 |
| Motionless as a tombstone. | 35 |
| Murmured like a shell. | 36 |
| Quick, as a darted beam of light. | 37 |
| Quiver, like a weed in water. | 38 |
| Red as a plum. | 39 |
| Rising like springs ingathered. | 40 |
| Scared like a wild bird flies. | 41 |
| Sharp, like the crack of a pistol. | 42 |
| Shone like a cherry by candle-light. | 43 |
| Simple as the flowers in the field. | 44 |
| Simple as milking. | 45 |
| Soft voice as a laughing dream. | 46 |
| Soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers. | 47 |
| Sparkling like the dancing of new stars. | 48 |
| Spread like fingers. | 49 |
| Sprightly, as a hayfield. | 50 |
| Steep, like the ladder of a hay-mow. | 51 |
| Stern as block of bogwood oak. | 52 |
| Stick to it, like a clenched nail. | 53 |
| Still as a log. | 54 |
| Striped like a viper’s loins. | 55 |
| Stuck to me like cobbler’s wax. | 56 |
| Stuck like leeches. | 57 |
| Suddenly, like a thunder-bolt. | 58 |
| Sure as stars of hope. | 59 |
| Sure as sunrise. | 60 |
| Surely as fame belongs to earth. | 61 |
| Swift as the summer lightning. | 62 |
| Trembling, as sunshine comes through aspen-leaves. | 63 |
| Trembled like a folded sheep at the bleating of her lamb. | 64 |
| Tremble, like the trembling of an arch ere the key-stone is put in. | 65 |
| Trembling, like water after sunset. | 66 |
| Unuseful, as if void of mind. | 67 |
| Upright as a young apple tree. | 68 |
| Gruff voice, like the creaking of the gallows-chain. | 69 |
| Wagging, like a bed of clover-leaves in the morning. | 70 |
| Waiting, like a lamp-post. | 71 |
| Warm as a cricket. | 72 |
| Yellow as gamboge. | 73 |
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