The first indication that this drunkenness was not correlated to the typical alcohol that normal people think of occurred on the 2nd line. "From Tankards scooped in Pearl--"(Dickinson). Then, immediately following the first stanza, stanza two confirms my previous thoughts. The speaker is literally drunk on air, dew, life, nature, summer. They are living it up until they cannot any longer. The speaker states that even after butterflies turn away from their sweet nectar, they will still be getting drunk on the sweet nature.
The figurative meaning behind the inns of Molten Blue is one that takes some outside understanding to comprehend. The most basic explanation that I could derive would be that the blue represented the sky. Inns are places that people stat and pass through. The speaker is saying that the blue melded together sky is something that all people pass through.
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