She expresses the mixed feeling of this new experience of motherhood: delight, optimism and doubt in certain respects. The poem was structured with six tercets (stanzas composed of three lines). In the title, "Song" may refer to the newborn's cry and "Morning" could be a play on words, intended to express "mourning", as she is afraid of wasting her time, just like in "Cinderella"; she is afraid of losing her youth. Metaphors are scattered throughout the poem. The phrase “Love sets you off like a big clock” is a simile, a metaphor for the baby’s future, a new life to seek as a product of love. In the second stanza, the word “Our” obviously refers to the couple, Plath and her husband, “magnifying” her arrival, here objected to as a “New Statue.” "Your nakedness" of the next line emphasizes the baby's innocence, which "obscures [Plath and her husband's] security", bringing them a sense of uncertainty and fear. The poem then presents Plath's view of this experience: as something taken from her in order to have a life of its own, a "Washing to the Wind »