She is suposedly drowsing by a fireside . The glowing bars might be the bars of the grate.

This is a bit of a wild guess but the emotion expressed in the last lines might refer to the love lost and fugitive. The "mountains overhead" might be a poetic reference to clouds. And the love is expressed as nervously pacing through the clouds

It might have some reference o the capabilities of a teenager to adapt to and utilize the many technologies which might be puzzling to people of an older generation.

"Ditty" might work

Although I agree with 1.,2., and 3. , it seems to me that 4. would mean "Do you have any objection to my smoking?" rather than a prohibition to smoking.

In this context it is interesting to note that there is a Finnish noun classification called partative which is imbedded in English but not obvious. Partative nouns indicate a class of objects rather than a particular object. There is no article

I am a native English speaker and I find furniture, luggage, and news are happy with the singular verb. Police can be plural. Fish and sheep can be either. Scissors and pants are plural.

The best I could discover about "iron related" is that the phrase refers to the presence of iron in a particular context. The living body requires the element of iron to function properly. Haemoglobin in blood cells transports oxygen around the

"Submitted" is completely different from "submissive". To submit something is to present it for inspection . To be submissive is to permit one's self to be dominated. Passionate is frequently associated with intense affectionate emotion

To be more general, an antecedent can be any situation prior to a current one so that the application of the term is not merely grammatical.