In "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore, is "down" a simile for chimney in "Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound"?

In "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore,
for the line you mention, I do not believe there is a simile at
all.

A href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simile.html">simile is
different from a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/metaphor.html">metaphor: both
compare two things that are dissimilar, though they share similar
characteristics. For example, "The children swooped down on the Easter eggs
like a flock of wild vultures." This is a simile, where the
behavior of children and vultures is similar, though children and
vultures are very different.

In the line you mention,
"down" is showing the direction in which St. Nick is moving. He is traveling through the
chimney, in a downward direction. There is no simile in this line at all because no two
things are being compared.

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As I drew in my head, and was turning
around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a
bound.

In this section of the
poem, I do not see a simile or any other literary device: there is only end rhyme with
the words "around" and "bound." One word
cannot be a simile. Remember, it must
be two things compared that are very
different, that simply share similar characteristics. The line you
reference simply means that St. Nick slid down the chimney with a lot of energy: no
comparison is made here.