When We Two Parted Sadness Quotes

The word "tears" eventually rhymes with "years." This is neat because it makes us think the tears will last for many "years," which is kind of what the speaker ends up telling us later in the poem.

Why "half broken-hearted"? Something tells us that maybe the sadness was too bad. After all, if this moment was so bad, wouldn't they have been completely broken-hearted, or totally broken-hearted?

The speaker, apparently, totally knew he would be sad. The miserable "hour" when they said goodbye pretty much predicted his current "sorrow." Maybe he's looking at it all wrong.