agency + fatal flaw

• the sedge has withered from the lake and no birds sing'


  repeated at end, stripped of beauty, echo of knight lacking life and purpose
• the squirrel's granary is full and the harvest's done'


  clearly autumn as it's ready for winter, juxtaposes knight with its preparation and knowledge
• the latest dream i ever dreamt on the cold hill side'


  move into winter? interjection, showing retrospect w/ present realisation
• i saw their starved lips in the gloam'


  lack of nutrients and warmth, eternal winter after experience with woman
• and i awoke and found me here, on the cold hill's side'


  transference from grot and the dream to the hill, real world
• though the sedge is withered from the lake, and no birds sing'


  cyclical structure, echoes speaker's words, abrupt and ambiguous ending