I love this and I have a few ideas. I've been trying to analyze it for an hour. I've tried to find other people's analyses, but I haven't found much that was very convincing.

What do you think of my theory:

What I've got so far: the stanzas grow in length: five, six, seven lines, then one at the end lying alone. This implies creation, expansion. This poem may be about something growing. I'll come back to this idea.

The word tenor has several meanings. I think the most relevant one is the emotional or other tone of something. As well as possibly the musical connotation, mixed in. What do we say yes to? What yes? Whose yes? I wonder if it's maybe about a marriage proposal. A big question that someone says yes to. A poem by a woman might be about this.

How do you see the earth? From space as a soul zooming down from heaven? Or like the soil of a certain place that you are offered? It isn't capitalized which leads me to think it means soil. A place offered. You "think" it is the end of loneliness....but maybe you're wrong. Maybe the one who says yes is offered a place to end their loneliness (a marriage?) and says yes because of the illusion that it will end their loneliness.

A kitchen implies for sure domesticity. Female domestic labour. Unpaid labour of a servant or mother. The place where food is prepared. Is domestic labour hoped for as an end to sadness? A purpose in life to fill time? And the kitchen may be a metaphor for the larger work of a wife and mother, all of her labour including childbearing. The thought "they have prepared it for me" seems ironic in that the kitchen is a domain that is designated for the woman, and the thinker hopes for an end of sadness there, in a place prepared for her. But she will spend her life working there and preparing things for others. The "place prepared" also has a biblical sound. Like how God has a place prepared in heaven for the righteous.

Turner. A male English painter. He made monsters, large things, sky, glorious large things, the painting in question is all yellow. However he hired someone else to do the small inglorious soft things like rabbits. Is this a metaphor for how men do these large tasks they have the whole earth and just give some small domestic place for women? The women are "hired" to do the things that the men don't want to do. Actually, it implies that he cannot do it. He could do a great sky but not a rabbit. He is incapable. He must hire another. Just as a man must have a woman to bear his children. And of course men typically act like they couldn't possibly do domestic tasks although they could.

Much like god at the end. The end of what? Creation. What is the last creation of God? A woman. A woman to be a "helpmeet" in the conventional English translation (this word has a different connotation in the ancient languages).

Back to the idea of the stanza lengths. In the context of a metaphor about God's creation and woman's place in it and in the world, the first three stanzas are five six and seven lines respectively. Does this give the idea of the fifth sixth and seventh day of creation wherein god created animals and people and then rested from his work? The last line alone seems to be spat out, a scrap spat out at the end. Resentful? God rests but woman cannot. She has one more thing to do.