This poem is about Browning being excited and content with his life. He states that his star and world has "opened its soul to me therefore I love it". Since the poem is speaking about a star that has opened its soul to him and is "like a flower", most likely the poem is about his love. This poem is written as a single stanza with thirteen lines of varying lengths. The first eight lines have either four or five syllables. The last five lines have at least ten syllables.
The speaker tells of "a certain star" of which he knows nothing except that "it can throw" beautiful red and blue darts of light. Because of his enthusiasm, his friends ask to see it. But when they look, it stops. The friends instead fix their attention on Saturn, which sits "above" the star. The poet is unfazed by their disinterest, for his star "has opened its soul to him" and so he loves it.