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We continued to discuss the way in which the narrator is portrayed and how Rossetti makes the reader feel sympathy towards her. The poem is chronological which shows how she was innocent and pure before she was lured by the man and became an 'unclean thing.' Rossetti also uses repetition of the word 'he' to suggest that all the problems were caused by the man by describing all the things he did. The reader is led to believe that the narrator truly felt she was in love which increases sympathy for her as she was used and then cast aside for a newer, purer woman. By only letting the reader know at the end she has a child from the lord it allows the reader to build up sympathy, before they know she has more power than first thought.