O Moon Comments

I love this poem! It's so lyrical! The relationship between the moon and the speaker changes throughout the poem. In the early stanzas it's a dance they share as they dance to a larger ball. But the reference to the moon as the tidal king brings in the awesome power of the moon as a celestial object. And in the last stanza the dance is interrupted by the moon's fickleness, a familiar trope. It grants wishes but also departs, and leaves the speaker without his dance partner to continue the waltz alone. That's a note of sweet sorrow at the end.