My spirits t'attend this double voice accorded
-- Speaker (Line 3)

Importance: This quote is significant because it is one of the very few places in the poem where the narratorial voice directly appears. After this stanza, it quite suddenly and rather inexplicably disappears from the poem altogether, never to return. Here, though, it provides an important guiding voice, helping the reader locate themselves both theoretically and quite literally within the poem's world and also within its setting.

Time had not scythe`d all that youth begun
-- Speaker (Line 12)

Importance: The perspective, now moving to the third person, continues the examination of this young woman. This quote is significant because it touches on many of the poem's key themes. There is the question of age and beauty and whether or not those two things are or should be synonymous. It establishes that the young woman's appearance has been corrupted by the loss of her virginity, and also that...