Now sways it that way, like the self-same sea
Forced to retire by fury of the wind.
Sometime the flood prevails and then the wind:
Now one the better, then another best;
Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
Yet neither conqueror nor conquered.
So is the equal poise of this fell war.
(Henry VI.)
In the last five examples the epic treatment and the personifications are noteworthy.
Comparisons from animal life are forcible and striking: