Persona of the poem:

● The poet's persona of this poem is Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

● With the biographical representations, this poem is one of the letters written by
Barrett Browning to her husband Robert Browning.
● Although the gender nor the name of the poet's persona and her beloved's is not given
in the poem, we can consider the speaker as she and her beloved as he.
● But the readers can take their preferred genders and is open for other interpretations.