Although the speaker does not announce explicitly where she is, she implies that the poem is being composed from her bedroom. The "ghosts" in the rain suggest that the room is being haunted by memories of lovers, and the speaker's sensual descriptions of her past encounters imply that she is reflecting from an intimate space. When she notes that the "unremembered lads" will no longer turn to her "at midnight," she once again emphasizes the intimate nature of her encounters, suggesting that she spent very late nights with her lovers (7-8). Now, as she composes the poem, the room is glaringly empty of lovers and leaves only the speaker to think about what she has lost.