Love poem 5 centuries old
Love poem about a one-night-stand. Written 5 centuries ago.
As a bird eats from your hand, you both enjoy the moment. In bed with a lover, you both enjoy the moment. After orgasm, you both know it's over. She moves on to the new. You move on by habit. You question whether she was sincere or faking it. Like the bird, was it only physical? ❤️
Other meanings. Think of each line as a musical measure. Iambic pentameter = 10 syllables (beats) = Line 1. Lines 2 & 3 have 9 syllables but Also 10 beats. Every line has 10 beats. But some are syncopated. Tension - Release. The 10-syllable lines are like the major chord, happy chord, release. The others are like minor or dominant chords, sad or distressed, tension. 😁 I don't see a meaning in the rhyme scheme. ABABBCC.
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They Flee From Me
BY SIR THOMAS WYATT (1502 -1542)
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themself in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
Busily seeking with a continual change.
Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”
It was no dream: I lay broad waking.
But all is turned thorough my gentleness
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also, to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served
I would fain know what she hath deserved.
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