There is one dramatic situation in the poem.  "Happy enough to chat and play with birds and rabbits and such as they, so long as men-folk keep away."  From the quotation of the poem, it shows that the bride likes animals more than human beings.  She should love her husband, but she did not.  She even felt more comfortable and easy when staying with animals.  So far as she is concerned, the farmer could not be compared with animals.  the farmer hardly heard her speak at all.  So he had no idea about what to do.  In the poem, he said, "But what to me?" In the first stanza, the farmer took his bride as a maid rather than a wife.  He needed someone to help him at the harvest time.  To the bride, she was so scared of her husband that she ran away.  Still, in the third and the fifth stanzas, the farmer regarded his wife as a maid.  He was a little bit like her master.  When she ran away, he caught her back.  To me, I think she was more like a slave rather than a wife.  She had no freedom when facing her husband, she turned to like animals.  The animals might be friends, to her.  The animals and she stand at the same level, and there were no control and command at all.  Besides, rabbits and birds are cute and lovely. They are tender.
     In stanza four, its function is to show the wife*s mind.  The red berries are the symbol of the wife*s passion.  The farmer was complaining that other people*s berries are riper than his.  It means that the wife loves animals much more than her husband.  If the berries had similar vatility, there should be no big differences among families.  The farmer did not care about his wife very much and treated her badly.  No wonder she showed no passion on him.