I thought this was a very lucid poem that made use of literal images more than figurative ones. The first stanza talks about how the two children met. While they got married at an early age as was customary in that day and age, the girl was still shy and their relationship still nascent.
In the next stanza, she "stops scowling", getting more comfortable in the relationship and growing fonder of him. She uses the metaphor of mingling dust to say that she wishes to be with him till death part them.
In the next stanza, she says he had to go away as per his calling as a river merchant and had to spend extended times away from home. I think "the monkeys make sorrowful noise..." is an apt use of symbolism to express her sadness.
"By the gate now, the moss is grown, the differnent mosses/ To deep to clear them away!" Although she provides a literal image of the deep mosses of different kind, I think she is in fact alluding to how seasoned their love is now and how much she misses him. This allusion is reinforces by the mention of the gate, perhaps the same one by which they first met. The mention of paired butterflies emphasizes her lonely state. The poem ends with another vivid literal image in which she says how far she is willing to travel to reunite with him.
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