 Studying Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti. Here is how you can analyse this poem. The adjective cottage maiden emphasises the speaker's youth at the beginning. The words sun and air belong to semantic field of nature showing how she was really pure, young and virginal. The alliteration of sea in contented and cottage shows she was quite pure and she wasn't really thinking about men. This declarative sentence shows she wasn't aware that she was beautiful. The adjective great describes the status of the Lord that met her. Find me out is passive voice. He basically hunted her out like a predator finding its prey. There's also the repetition of great Lord to show how he changed her life completely. This rhetorical question shows that once she met this Lord, he now introduced problems to her. The verb Lord suggests he's a predator. The adjective palace to describe his home shows she was redazzled by his wealth. These oxymorons show she started having sex with him and started feeling really conflicted. The noun play thing shows he didn't really take her seriously. He then used her and threw her away.