In Stanza 1, the speaker reveals that the wind has stopped blowing. He is on a walk in the countryside, and when the wind was blowing, he allowed it to guide his movements. Now that the wind has stopped, he has stopped too.
In Stanza 2, the speaker describes how he is sitting, which gives us a further peek into his state of mind: his knees are drawn up and his face is pushed so far between them that his hair hangs down to the ground. He is quiet, unmoved to speak even to himself, his ears pricked to the sound of nature around him.
In Stanza 3, the speaker describes what he is looking at. Spanning the expanse of his field of vision in this position are ten weeds. He chances upon a woodspurge in the shade, drawn to the geometry of its three-cup design.
In Stanza 4, the speaker reveals that the emotional state that brought him to the hill is "perfect grief" (13). His escape from this deep emotional turmoil is not "wisdom" nor "memory" (14). Instead, it is the knowledge that the woodspurge "has a cup of three" (16).
