Similar Composition, Different Content Within the “Passionate Shepherd to His Love” the narrator's love for a woman he fancies is idealized within it. Its structure of this poem is made as a basis for the both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Bait.” Even though all of the authors are different, they all manage to mirror a similar structure. The organization of the poems are all very similar, all of them have four line stanzas and all three poems have a rhyming scheme of AABB. Also, the original poem and the nymph's reply both use six stanzas within their work while “The Bait” uses seven. Besides these quatrains, the poems write in iambic tetrameter, which creates a pulse that can be noticed when reading the piece. Iambic tetrameter
