In this poem, there are argument and counter-argument, as well as a conclusion.

The poem is also different from conventional courtly love poetry, because in the first two stanzas,the speaker used a lot of exaggeration of time and space.

The first stanza is the part of argument. From line 1 to 4,

the speaker expressed his wish that if he and his lady had enough time,

he would take the conventional way to praise and court his lady.

But in the following lines, exaggeration of time and space make it clear

that conventional way of courtship is simply impossible for them,

and such exaggeration serves as an irony to conventional ways of courtship.

First, from line 5-10,the speaker used the distance between the Indian Granges and Humber to represent the vast space,and the length of time is suggested by "ten years before the flood... till the conversion of the Jews.

" In line 11 and 12, the word, "vegetable" implies the slowly growing sense of the speaker's love; "vaster than empires and more slow"again shows the exaggeration of space and time.

the speaker said he would use hundreds of years to praise his lover's

Form: Marvell's most common strategy is alternation of short and long lines, like the tetrameter-trimeter groups in "The Coronet" or the pentameter-tetrameter pairs in "The Mower Against Gardens." He also likes tetrameter couplets ("To His Coy Mistress," "Bermudas," "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body," and "The Nymph Complaining"), which anticipate the pentameter couplet ("heroic couplet") whose measured balance becomes the hallmark of the next century's poetry. The "Horatian Ode" alternates tetrameter and trimeter couplets in which the first pair sets up a situation which the second, shorter pair tartly comments upon. Sometimes the sentiment is admiration (ll. 27-8, 43-4, 75-6) and at others, ambiguous truth (ll. 99-10) or outright criticism (ll. 15-16, 119-120).

We would sit down, and think which way

"To His Coy Mistress" is (with Herrick's "To Maidens to Make Much of Time") one of the era's most famous expressions of the carpe diem motif. Note the comparisons one might make with Donne's and Jonson's poetic flights of fancy regarding the lover's claims about the vast world's riches, and the cosmic scale of time. The phrase "But at my back I always here" shows up in Eliot's "The Wasteland," with a slightly different sound accompanying the persona's observation. Note that, like many Marvell poems, this one unfolds in stanzas that work like verse paragraphs, opening with a hypothetical exposition of timeless love, changing to the dreadful effects of time (see Spenser and Shakespeare), and turning the threat into the motive for reversing the effect of "devouring time" ("Now let us sport us while we may, / And now, like amorous birds of prey, / Rather at once our time devour / Than languish in his slow-chapped power."). His closing three couplets are a triumph of the metaphysical conceit's power to represent the human condition in violent, memorable, and witty metaphor.

Contrast this with the effects of the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare, which never went out of print and continued to have enormous influence in nearly every generation until the mid-twentieth century.

and such expression only implies their lack of time,

Some common words found in the essay are:
Ganges' Should'st, Coy Mistress, JB Leishman, Henry Thompson, Granges Humber, MP Hull, Spenser Shakespeare, Horatian Ode, TS Eliot, Chaucer Shakespeare, coy mistress, henry thompson, sir henry, andrew marvell, exaggeration space, horatian ode, sir henry thompson, letter marvell, ten flood, love ten flood, vegetable love, marvel meant, till conversion jews,
Approximate Word count = 1676
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)