Aubade

-it's a poem or a song
-about:greeting the morning
-lovers are seperating at break off the day
often a dialog between lovers
-form: dramatic elements
-refrain: warning of the approaching dawn-time/sunrise
- Middle Age
-place: Europe

examples:

an aubade is embedded in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starting with the famous lines:
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear