Wyatt - Whoso List to Hunt Poem Line by Line Analysis

About Author - 

Sir Thomas Wyatt, born in 1603 in England was a very talented poet, politician, and Ambassador.  He was known for his good looks, swordsmanship, and talent in music and languages. These virtues made him a courtier and he attended the court of Henry VIII.

He is credited with bringing the sonnet form into English poetry from Italian Poetry.

Sonnet Structure - 

Thomas Wyatt follows the sonnet structure of the Petrarchan format. There are 14 lines in the sonnet, the first 8 lines of the poem are called octave with abba, abba rhyming pattern while the following 6 lines are called sestet with varying rhyme patterns.

The octave presents a certain mood or state, and then there is a shift in the same mood in the sestet.

This form of sonnet allowed an outlet for expressing feelings and an opportunity for introspection in the sestet part. Wyatt & Milton followed the Petrarchan form of the sonnet (8+6).

Whoso List To Hunt - Line By Line Analysis

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,

But as for me, hélas, I may no more.

The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,

I am of them that farthest cometh behind.

Yet may I by no means my wearied mind

Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore

Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,

Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.

   Wyatt is proclaiming to the readers that whoever wishes to hunt, the poet knows where you will find a hind or deer. Here, the hind refers to the woman the poet is in love with.
But as for me, alas, I may no more hunt, The vain travail i.e., empty labor had him sore and exhausted, The poet is tired of chasing the hind that is the woman and now he has given up. 
The Poet is going to be the farthest and behind all the hunters, all the possible lovers trying to try their luck with the woman. But in the next line, the poet also expressed regret that by no means, his wearied and tired mind could draw away and stop thinking about the deer. As the deer fleet afore, runs ahead, the poet kept on following her in a fainting condition.
Therefore, owing to his circumstances, he now finally gives up and concluded the octave of the sonnet with the assertion that catching that hind is as difficult as catching the wind in a net.

Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,

As well as I may spend his time in vain.

And graven with diamonds in letters plain

There is written, her fair neck round about:

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,

And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

   

   The poet at the beginning of the sestet confirms that whoever wants to chase the woman or hunt the deer, may proceed to do so and he won't have any doubt or issue with that. But in the next line he also sort of warns the chaser that as he has spent his time in vain, the hopeless lover of the woman will meet the same fate and will remain empty-handed.
Because on the neck of that hind, it is graven in diamonds that  - "Noli me tangere..." 
don't touch me, as I belong to the king. And though I seem tamable, I am wild to hold.