Beginnings of love ought to stop grim poet’s misery (6)
I believe the answer is:
dolour
'poet's misery' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both feelings as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'beginnings of love ought to stop grim' is the wordplay.
'beginnings of' says to take the initial letters.
'to stop' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'grim' becomes 'dour' (synonyms).
The first letters of 'love ought' is 'lo'.
'lo' placed within 'dour' is 'DOLOUR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dolour that I've seen before include "Anguish" , "Great sorrow" , "Woe" , "Grief" , "sadness" .)