An essay title has the function to advance  topics and themes which readers are going to read. In fact , by the poem's title, we can realize that the subject is a lady (there is the personal pronoun "she") and that she lived in desolated and not very frequented roads. By the text layout it is seen that it is composed of two paragraphs, the second longer than the first, and that they are divided by a colon: this structure of the text make me comprehend that probably this second part is an explanation, a clarification of the first.

By the first poem reading I've noted the presence of some enjambements which connect a line to the following, giving to the poem a more rapid and continuous rhythm, maybe reflecting poet's mood of sadness and distress.

Then I've noted that into the poem peaceful and gloomy imaginaries and moments were alternated. In fact in the first part of the first paragraph sceneries in which the maid moves and lives are represented: countries, desolated landscapes and a spring of Scotland and so an exotic and solitary atmosphere.

In the second part of the same paragraph the poet makes us understand she was lonely without nobody's love.

In the second paragraph there is a positive opening scene too: with a metaphor and a similitude, the poet respectively describes the lady like a violet grown on a mossy stone and like a lonely star shining in the sky, and so he associates her to natural elements. The poet uses these two imaginaries both to underline the maid's solitude and maybe to remark her unicity and her rarity.

The last part of this paragraph is negative: in fact here, thanks to the contraposition of the simple past before and the present simple after,  the reader understands that now the maid is dead and that all the previous poem part was referred to the past, to when she was lived yet. The poet doesn't use the adjective "dead" to define her, but he prefers to use the expression "she ceased to be", as he wouldn't have the courage to say that word. He further uses "to be", a verb of perception, to underline that the death is an involuntary action and to remark the importance of a person existence.

Her existence was important for him because he was probably the only one to really know her for qualities and personality:  this fact can be comprehended by the last lines when he says her name, Lucy, and when he says that her death is a big difference for him.

This expression has further a deeper meaning than the verb "to die", like "to exist" and "to be" than "to live": To live is simply a fact, a condition of human being but to exist in something more:  it's to live totally every day with its bad and happy events, to live in our family's and friends' hearts so that, also after the death, we can continue to exist. Because of this reason the poet describes her like if she would be in front of his eyes, associating her to a beautiful flower or a lonely star shining in the night, as she would be his only one point of life.