Kernings? Meter? Link has...absolutely no idea what either of those things are. He also doesn't know much about love poems either, so Link's looking a little blank during this conversation.

But if Natalia has someone she likes, well, there's other ways to show that affection other than poetry she's apparently not very good at.

"You could cook them their favourite," he says. That's what he always did. Of course, Link also happily cooked for other people too, so maybe that wasn't necessarily and exclusive demonstration of affection...