STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

The text is arranged into for parts of eight lines each, that is into four octaves, each one playing a definitive function in the economy of the poem.

• ¶ The first octave introduces the scene, the second one expresses the poet's comparison, the third conveys his curiosity about the content of the girl's singing, to end up with the poet's convinction that the real thing the pleseant feelings of the girl music which is still misses.