Hi Jessieee,
You've made a good start on your close analysis. I'd suggest that you think about ways you could move to a more nuanced analysis, doing a little more with your overall interpretation and the quotes you're selecting to comment on.
With your first paragraph as an example, you're setting this up with reference to the time of the year, the suggestion of spring. You might do more by thinking about how Browning emphasises its fleeting nature, how all the quotes you're using imply a degree of desolation, loss and turning over of time. Rather than just taking it back to a general view (the conservativism in the Victorian era), you could investigate the imagery itself. That is, if (as you suggest) there is a degree of fragility, powerlessness and delicacy, how does that sit with the text? Equally, remember that it's not about just finding heaps and heaps of quotes; this is especially so in the third body para - it's better to offer a deeper analysis rather than just a series of one-word quotes, especially if these are focused on saying what happens within the poem, rather than analysing it.
The other main suggestion I'd make would go to your openings and closings - at the moment, each paragraph is a little repetitive and maybe a little on the superficial side. Because of that, this feels like each paragraph stands on its own, rather than being connected to a more cohesive reading. You could spend a little more time working on how these poems intersect a little more, which I can see you've started to do!
Good luck with Lit and feel free to ask any questions, hope that helps a little
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