The speaker of the poem, the unnamed “i” who announces themself at the beginning, is the main character. The speaker spends the poem declaring their feelings for an unnamed lover, who is acknowledged mostly with the pronouns “you” (6) and “your” (1), and with terms of endearment like “my dear” (3), “my darling” (4), “my sweet” (6), and so on. The speaker is absolutely enamored of their beloved and find their own identity absorbed in them. The speaker’s heart contains “your heart” (1). “Beautiful you are my world” (7), the speaker makes it known. Because the speaker’s language is entirely consumed by the beloved, it is difficult to distinguish anything about the speaker alone. Readers may wonder where the speaker ends and their beloved begins.

This indistinguishability is one of the achievements of the poem, however. It is unclear if the speaker of the poem is one person, or if there...