Epigram on My Wedding- Day to Penelope

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Wedding Epigram on Marriage

This short epigram was composed for the poet’s wedding and frames the marriage with ironic distance. In just four lines Byron notes elapsed time and changing intimacy—"six years since we were one, and five since we were two"—presenting the wedding day not as a beginning but as a milestone in a shifting relationship. The couple’s history and the passage of years give the line its dry, wry context.