The short piano introduction to this song is based on the melody of the opening words: "My true love hath my heart, and I have his, / by just exchange one for the other given." The lyrical mood becomes later more passionate at the line: "His heart in me keeps me and him in one," and reaches its dynamic climax with the words: "His heart his wound received from my sight." The flowing motion of the piano stops with the final words of the poem: "Both, equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss." In the last section of the song, Morawetz brings back a slightly varied version of the beginning as if the poet imagined at a distance the opening line of the poem.