In the 1st stanza as the poet describes the moon as a dying lady he says that she is like a dying lady who is sick and pale. Pale because probably she has no blood in her body because she is in her death phase and lean because she is old. This poem can also be told to be an allegory because its each line has two meanings. He rather describes the moon to be senile because it was during the dusk time when the moon was rising and thus it looked pale. He has also told that the moon is wrapped in a "gauzy veil" i.e by something or transparent cloth and here the 'gauzy veil' has been compared with clouds. This is because when the moon was rising it was dusk time and the faint beam of sunlight was still their which made the time look gloomy and the clouds wrapped up the moon like the veil. The sky was yet to be dark so the moon was not bright enough so the poet compared the old lady's (the moon's) brain as a fading one as she was feeble and she was wandering.