Considering the title the reader could understand that the text dealt with Shakespeare's wife.

It is a Shakespearian sonnet organized in three quatrains and a couplet.

The poetess, Carol Ann Duffy, pretends to be Anne Hathaway who reminds her lover with passion.

In the three quatrain she remind when her lover and her loved in their bed.

In the first stanza she describes their bed like a better world where they would dive. This is a metaphor used for better explain the absolute detachment from the rest of the world that she feel when they loved in their bed. She uses words like “spinning” and “torchlight” for emphasize the idea of passion.

After that she compares her lover's words whit shooting stars with another metaphor; maybe she would say that they were rare, receding and desirable like shooting stars. She also uses a simile for say that his passionate words had for her the same effect of their kisses.

When she speaks about her husband she calls him “my lover”, this remark the idea of passion.

The second quatrain is connected with the first one with a run on line. The poetess continues to use metaphors to judge the objects of her memories. First of all she says “my body now is a softer rhyme to his” for give the idea that when they loved they become one single person; but she was a “softer rhyme to his” because she considers herself worst than her lover. She uses three words for give the comparison between her body and her lover's one: softer rhyme, echo and assonance. These words come from the semantic area of rhetoric, this underlines that he was a writer.

In the lines six and seven she compares his touch with a verb and herself with a noun; therefore he completed her, like a verb and a noun together complete a phrase. She uses the verb “dancing” for give the idea of a soft touch that skims her softly.

The speaking voice tells the reader that some nights she dreamed “he'd written” her and makes a comparison between the bed and a page to declare that her husband wrote and loved her with the same passion and was equal clever to do the two things.

She continues to remind her memories also in the last quatrain and she continued to use words that recall a poet and a plays writer (“page”, “drama”, “played”).

In the last line of this stanza she evokes her “living laughing love”.

In the couplet she explains that she has held her love in a casket because now she is old and widow. She reminds her husband because when she thinks about him she feels the same emotions that she would feel if he was here.