After analyzing the text thoroughly this paper comes to the conclusion that because the poem expresses the female's love, Yiren is a male whom the unmarried young woman loses.
这是一首待字闺中的女子求偶情诗，“伊人”是想象中的男性形象。
One young woman described an unmarried colleague who wears a wedding ring to seem more mature and less available to the men she works with.
一位年轻女士形容一位未婚却带着婚戒同事看上去会比较成熟，她的男性同事也不那么打她的“主意”。
A young, unmarried woman may be totally unprepared, unfit, or unwilling to assume the responsibilities of motherhood.
年少、未婚女子可能到底就无准备、不适宜或不愿意承担为母之道。
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