In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," the shepherd is expressing his love to the nymph. He asks her to live with him and be his love. In return he promises her everything. The shepherd promises her things that he cannot give her such as "a gown made of the finest wool," and "buckles of the purest gold." I think that he promises her things he cannot give her because he loves her so much. The shepherd wants so bad to make her happy by giving her these wonderful things that I think he starts to believe that it is genuinely possible. "The

The writing styles used for these two poems are nearly mirror images of one another. Both are examples of iambic tetrameter poems. Both poems include many examples of assonance, the repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line. In the first line of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," it says "come live with me and be my love." The words me and be are an example of assonance. In the fourth line of "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," it says "to live with thee and be thy love." Thee and be are also examples of assonance. Both poems also contain examples of alliteration, the repetition of one or more initial sounds, usually consonants, within a line. There is an example of alliteration in the first line of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." The words live and love have the same initial sound which together makes those words an alliteration.

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