Analysis of Recuerdo

We were very tired, we were very merry --
   We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.
   It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable --
   But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
   We lay on the hill-top underneath the moon;
   And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.  
   We were very tired, we were very merry --
   We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
   And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
  From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
  And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
  And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.  

We were very tired, we were very merry,
  We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
  We hailed, "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head,
  And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
  And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and the pears,
  And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.