tapers = candles, basically saying there's an infinite number of candles in the sky so she'll be able to see in the darkness

Repeated "on" perhaps to keep the iambic trimeter in these shorter lines

third and fourth lines are shorter than the rest - limerick form

AABBA rhyme - limerick form

personification of earth throughout the poem -- makes the poem feel animated

historical setting, we don't have really chimney-sweepers anymore

meaning swampy/muddy ground -- illustrates how down in the dumps the child is, probably caked in mud, sad and crying. Breaks my heart :(

Summer is icumin vibes

the whole poem invokes a sense of loss and longing. With dark and wet imagery, it seeks to make the reader feel as uncomfortable as the fatherless child. this animates the poem and make it feel as if you can touch the dew

Romanticism poems often have these proclamations of vivid imagination like "rising upon clouds" and "flying through fields on the wings of a bird" (from a Wordsworth poem I think). These kinds of lines invoke a strong sense of overwhelm for the reader, an otherworld feeling that stems from a vast imagination

poem about childhood which is a feature of Romantic poetry

consonance: repetition of "S" sound

Rhyming Couplets - AA BB CC rhyme scheme

a lot of flower imagery because virginity is often represented as a flowers

this is pronounced kind of like "th" ["bloweth" (blows), "Bleteth" (bleats)]. This may have been a stepping stone to Early Modern English words like "hath" (has), "doth" (does), "quoth" (quotes). By knowing the sound of this letter we can try to translate Middle English words.