Shakespeare's Sonnets

Which literary device has Edmund Spenser used in these lines from Sonnet 9?

Which literary device has Edmund Spenser used in these lines from Sonnet 9?

Long-while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which lighten my dark sprite,
Yet find I nought on earth to which I dare
Resemble th'image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun: for they do shine by night

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

personification

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Hyperbole