Im bad at writing poems is this a good poem? should I add to it in any way or change it?

life is like an hourglass.
Slowly going down the vast
Like playing in the sand
Or walking through the grass

Life goes by so fast
Falling like sand
Try to stop it with your hand
It will eventually overflow
And drop into the below

Often like a desert
The ahead in life is utterly unknown
Just like the sandy biomes weather
Nice and warm in the sunny zone
Or cold and frightening in the night lone

Read the lines from "there was a child went forth" and answer the question. and the apple-trees cover'd with blossoms, and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road; and the old drunkard staggering home from the out-house of the tavern, whence he had lately risen, and the school-mistress that pass'd on her way to the school, and the friendly boys that pass'd—and the quarrelsome boys, and the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the barefoot negro boy and girl, and all the changes of city and country, wherever he went. which poetic device is exemplified in this stanza? select all that apply. allegory anaphora imagery metaphor