Mistress" in a certain way to receive the answer that he

wanted out of his mistress. Marvell uses meter, imagery,

and tone to persuade his lady to further commit in their

relationship. This poem has a very strong carpe diem, or

seize the day, theme which is conveyed throughout the poem.

In general, the meter of the poem is iambic tetrameter.

Marvell uses pauses as well as runs one line into the next

without a pause to break up the neat pattern that the rhyme

scheme of the poem imposes. The first two lines, for

example, contain internal pauses that break the tetrameter

into shorter units; "Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime." The third line contains

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all, the images of death. Nothing depicts the urgency and

argument with his mistress. In the first section, the poem

effective because of the inevitability of death in

debate that he loves his mistress more than anything in the

the beginning, creating a sense of urgency from the speaker.

references of the tomb are perhaps the greatest images of

to the Great Flood and the conversion of the Jews are both

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)