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1The opening song celebrates mutual desire and admiration while revealing the woman’s hard labor and concern about others’ gaze.3The poem moves from a woman’s anxious search and reunion to the guarded splendor of Solomon’s wedding celebration.4The poem celebrates a bride’s beauty and the lovers’ mutual desire through praise, fragrance, and the image of a garden.5The poem moves from shared delight through missed encounter and violence to the woman's praise of her absent beloved.6The poem moves from a search for the beloved to mutual belonging and praise that sets the woman apart.7The poem moves from praise of the woman’s beauty to her own declaration of belonging, desire, and love freely offered.8The poem closes by declaring love’s fierce strength and priceless worth amid questions of public affection, maturity, and belonging.
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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).