Cherry ripe

Cherry-ripe
Analysis

This poems tells us about a beautiful girl who has matured but is not ready to make commitments. In the first stanza, the author compares her face to the beauty of a garden with blooming flowers. Then he goes on to compare her face to a heavenly paradise, one with so many “pleasant fruits” ripe for the picking and eating, which reiterated the girl’s beauty. The cherries, the author says that they cannot be bought elsewhere, meaning they are really one-of-a-kind or precious.
In the next stanza, he says that the lips enclose a double row of...