Assignment task:
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain. Under my head till morning; but the rain. Is full of ghosts tonight that tap and sigh. 5 Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain. For unremembered lads that not again. Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone; I only know that summer sang in me. A little while, that in me sings no more.
How do some of the formal features of the poem contribute to, or stand in contrast to, the meaning of the poem?