Analysis (Annotation) of the fourth stanza

• The speaker seems to accept that it is the sound of the wind he hears.

• "Faltering forward" suggests he cannot move on from the memory of his wife.

• "leaves around me falling" reflects the speakers loneliness and perhaps his wife "falling" around him.

• The "wind" and "thorn" give us the idea that his memories cause his pain.

• The rhythm completely breaks down at the beginning of the stanza

• "oozing" suggest something uncomfortable or repulsive

• The final line "and the woman calling" suggests that the speakers guilt and memory will forever torment him.