Poe's Poem 'They Flee From Me'

The heroic couplet “They Flee From Me” is about this playboy (the speaker) who used to attract a group of mysterious creatures where they creep into his room barefoot and take bread, but they have now deserted away and do not visit him anymore. It turns out “they” the creatures is actually women. This one women in particular goes in his room and changes everything. She gives him a sweet kiss and lets the readers know that it was not a dream. He is confused about this encounter and doesn’t know how the girl should be treated because she snubs him after the kiss.
The first stanza he talks about “they” coming to see him and then suddenly leaving him. The words such as “tame” and “wild” is usually associated with animals. The speaker has used a metaphor comparing the women who would enter his room to animals. Birds are normally the ones who would take bread from a person’s hand and are barefoot. We also see a bit of contrast, the speaker says they were once “tame” and “meek” but now they are “wild.” The letter “m” sound is used as a consonance, words such as “sometime,” “chamber,” “them,” “tame,” and “remember.” There is an iambic pentameter throughout the whole poem. “They flee from me that sometime did me seek.” The rhyming scheme is ABABBCC in each stanza.
Maybe this one girl that kisses him is twenty times better than all the others that came before her? Everything changes in the second stanza. In the beginning he was the one with power and was able to tame the wild animals but now things have been reversed. This woman comes into his room with her beautiful dress. She takes the dress off and catches him into a trap where she kisses him. The speaker was caught off guard and now has become the victim. There is also alliteration in the last line with “And softly said, “Dear Heart, how like you