"Grass" by Carl Sandburg is a free verse poem, with a somber tone, the poem has only three stanzas, where the grass I talking in the poem are used literary form as the repetition and the anaphora, this are simple forms used to make the poem relatable and comprehensible to the reader.
The line ¨Thy baited hook shall tangle me no more¨ because fish are beguiled or tricked into biting a hook with glittery lures or bait and that would be what the author is comparing love to