'They flee from me' by sir Thomas Wyatt: Exam notes and critical analysis
FIRST STANZA: 1:They flee from me that sometime did me seek. 2: With naked foot ,stalking in my chamber 3: I have seen them gentle ,tame & meek 4: That now are wild and do not remember. 5:That sometime they put himself in danger. 6:To take bread at my hand: & now they range. 7:Busily seeking with a continual change. SECOND STANZA: 8:Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise 9: Twenty times better , but once in special 10:In thin array after a pleasant guise 11: When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall 12: And she caught me in her arms long and small 13:Therewith all sweetly did me kiss And softly said "dear heart how lol you thi" THIRD STANZA: 14:It was no dream: I lay broat waking 15:But all is turned thorough my gentleness 16:Into strange fashion of foresaking 17: And I have leave to go to her goodness 18:And she also ,to use newfangleness. 19:But since that I so kindly am ...