This poem (Song of Solomon 5:2–8) deliberately mirrors the poem in Song of Solomon 3:1–5. The big change that has taken place in the young woman’s relationship with her beloved since the poem in Song of Solomon 3:1–5 is of course their wedding, and the consummation of their marriage in Song of Solomon 4:1 – 5:2.
Everything before the central section of Song of Solomon 4:1 – 5:2 describes the lovers' experience in the build-up to their wedding and consummation, and everything that follows describes their experience after the wedding and consummation.
2 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”