The language intrigues the reader on a long journey to the reality of love. The poem presents a story in precise wording of a man walking on a "Bristol Street" yet is distracted by the "lover" singing of his never ending love. His explicit language of how long his love last using hyperboles that will never happen.
‘‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street Though the lover perceives this to be true he is ignorant of the face of mortal reality of how love will end and die just as everyone else at the chime of the clock. But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, you cannot conquer Time [...] It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on
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