a complaint

• cyclical narrative / repetition

  "There is a change - and I am poor"

  "hath made me poor"
• semantic field of water

  "a fountain at my fond heart's door" - fricative alliteration

  "a comfortless and hidden well
• religious language

  "blest"

  "consecrated font"
• personification of fountain

  "of murmuring, sparkling, living love,"
• rhetorics


  "What have I? shall I dare to tell?"