Christopher Marlowe’ poem titled “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a pastoral melodic, a manner of poetry that's illustrated in a peaceful and perfect way. Marlowe’s poem us written in a typical iambic tetrameter. The majority of the lines comprise eight syllables, easily elided syllables, and four substantial stresses. However, Lines 3 and 4, do not have eight syllables; which produces a particular effect. Though the 24th line, this regular meter continued, never making its way to sing-song excellence. This regular meter is most likely due to Marlowe having multiplicity devices and avoiding a significant amount of focus to its steady constancy. Soft consonants: M, W, EM; are used to begin lines with the sporadic “feminine” ending of a relaxed syllable in the third stanza, create an enchanting variation to a fundamentally steady and straight form. In the first stanza, line 2, the Shepherd gives his love an invitation to join him and “Pleasure prove” (2) (Arp and Johnson). The reference to pleasure creates a sense of an
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Although the speaker is a Shepherd, he and his love will watch shepherds while their “feed to their flock (5)/or Listen to waterfalls (6)/ or Birds singing” (7) (Arp and Johnson). By Marlowe writing the lovers relaxing on rocks, while hearing birds sing creates a very vivid image of pleasure and enticement. The third, fourth and fifth stanza are some connected items of “delight” (22) or clothing that the Shepherd will make for his lover. In these particular verses, it becomes evident that the “Shepherd” is not the same; actually, he is an old-fashioned man who owns a small amount of land and hired shepherds to work for him. One of the items on the list that the Shepherd will make for his lover: “bed of roses” (9) in today’s time is referenced negatively; meaning: not a pleasurable circumstance.
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Although the speaker is a Shepherd, he and his love will watch shepherds while their “feed to their flock (5)/or Listen to waterfalls (6)/ or Birds singing” (7) (Arp and Johnson). By Marlowe writing the lovers relaxing on rocks, while hearing birds sing creates a very vivid image of pleasure and enticement. The third, fourth and fifth stanza are some connected items of “delight” (22) or clothing that the Shepherd will make for his lover. In these particular verses, it becomes evident that the “Shepherd” is not the same; actually, he is an old-fashioned man who owns a small amount of land and hired shepherds to work for him. One of the items on the list that the Shepherd will make for his lover: “bed of roses” (9) in today’s time is referenced negatively; meaning: not a pleasurable circumstance.
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