2.11.2010
A simple question opens the poem what the sense of a frantic life is when we go around without time to see the small things, having worries only.

We have no time to see the beauty of nature, woods, animals in their simple natural movements, stars and the sky, the fascinating dance the grace of serene eyes smiling.

In the end the speaker says this is a poor life.
The poem is arranged into seven stanzas of two lines each.

In the poem the stanzas rhyme giving a melancholy and regular rhythm, with many repetitions, for example No time to at the beginning of the central stanzas.

The first and the last stanza are almost similar, with some different words (What is this life if and A poor life this if). Alliteration is frequently used, stand and stare, beneath the boughs, when woods we, streams full of stars, time/ till. The semantic field refers mostly to nature.