What is the metaphor in this poem?

Question:in the poem unconsious came a beauty by may swenson...
what is a metaphor???

Unconcious came a beauty to my wrist and stopped my pencil, merged its shadow profile with my hand's ghost on the page: Red Spotted Purple or else Mourning Cloak, paired thin as paper wings, near black, were edged on the seam side poppy orange, as were its spots. I sat arrested, for its soot haired body's worm shone in the sun. It bent its tongue long as a leg black on my skin, and clung without my feeling, while its tomb stained dubplicate parts of a window opened. And then I moved.

what is a/the metaphor??? THANK YOU

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: in the poem unconsious came a beauty by may swenson...
what is a metaphor???

Unconcious came a beauty to my wrist and stopped my pencil, merged its shadow profile with my hand's ghost on the page: Red Spotted Purple or else Mourning Cloak, paired thin as paper wings, near black, were edged on the seam side poppy orange, as were its spots. I sat arrested, for its soot haired body's worm shone in the sun. It bent its tongue long as a leg black on my skin, and clung without my feeling, while its tomb stained dubplicate parts of a window opened. And then I moved.

what is a/the metaphor??? THANK YOU

A metaphore is a comparison that doesn't use the word 'like'. The author says something is something else, to let you use your imagination.
I think the metaphores are the following:
my hand's ghost on the page:
I sat arrested, for its soot haired body's worm shone in the sun.
its tomb stained dubplicate parts of a window

This is a very elementary definition, but I always remembered metaphors being a way to describe someone/something without using "like" or "as" in the description. For example: You are my life. That's a metaphor!