“Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;”
in this the action is dramatic, the verbal structure metaphoric.
The same is true of—
“Nor made to court an amourous looking-glass;”
while the words,
“He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber,
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute,”
surpasses both, as not being metaphoric, yet poetic as well as dramatic.
Furthermore, the latter line—
“To strut before a wanton, ambling nymph,”