01643--aubade

Aubade [oh-bahd] is a song or lyric poem lamenting the arrival of dawn to separate two lovers. The form, which has no fixed metrical pattern, flourished in the late Middle Ages in France; it was adopted in Germany by Wolfram von Eschenbach and in England by Chaucer, whose Troilus and Criseyde includes a fine aubade. Later English examples include Donne's The Sunne Rising' and Act III scene v of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.