It gives the nature human like qualities and that helps set the scence for a reader.
The rhyme scheme is ABAB up until the last two lines, which are CC. Rhyme scheme signifies which lines rhyme with each other, depending on the last word in each line. The As correspond with each other, the Bs correspond with each other, and so on.
The main idea of the poem is that one should not to give up pursuing a woman if at first she doesn't seem interested, because when she has finally been won over, her love will last forever. In other words, be patient, because a woman who is not easily wooed will provide the longest form of love.
The poet uses the "metaphor" of burning an oak. A metaphor is a comparison between two seemingly unlike things (in this case a woman/her love and an oak tree) without using the words "like" or "as" (which would make the comparison a simile).
The poet uses the metaphor of a wound to represent how deep love can go ("Deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire With chaste affects, that naught but death can sever").
She is a <em>perseverant</em> woman, she does whatever she can to tackle racial problems, her family is from Calabar and her husband-to-be, Nnaemeka, is Igbo, her fiancé family objects to the marriage because of Nene's ethnical background, they eventually get married and she even helps solve a quarrel between her husband and his father by asking the father to come along and visit Nene and Nnaemeka's children.
