Merchants wife

  • young love

    In the first stanza, the two young children are playing outside of a gate. They both met each other while outside and they got along and struck up love.
  • Marriage

    Marriage
    In the second stanza, she turned fourteen, and married him.
  • a year later

    a year later
    in the third stanza, they shared a powerful love. They claim to be together forever.
  • seperation

    seperation
    In this stanza the man leaves the reader and she becomes very sad because she wants to be with him forever.
  • sadness

    sadness
    both the reader and the wive are sad that they are leaving. They enjoy being together a lot and want to with each other till the end.
  • Love never dies

    Love never dies
    In the final phrases of the poem, the speaker says "I will come out to meet you, as far as cho-fu-sa". They are determined to make there relationship work through their struggles.