Wyatt states that the pairing between the doe and its owner is unfair in the last line: "And wild, to hold, though I seem tame." » Throughout the seset, the poet is determined to suit it better than its true owner. He is down to earth like her and feels he would take better care of her. The reader knows this because of the difference in the choice of words used to describe the doe keeper and himself. When describing his wish to own the doe, Wyatt repeats the word "hold", which establishes the feeling of voluntary, gentle mating rather than ownership. The resolution of this poem is that the speaker accepts defeat. Although the doe and her captor make an unfair couple, Wyatt has no chance of changing that. The reader feels sympathy for the speaker's plight because of the universal tendency to wonder about a missed opportunity with "he who had