“To His Coy Mistress,” is a poem about a man telling a woman that he desires her and that they don’t have much time to be together so they should love each other while they have a chance. The message of this poem is rather straight forward. The speaker used beautiful words to spell out that he wishes to sleep with the shy mistress and that they should seize the day because time never stops and no matter what they do time will continue to pass. The poem’s rhythm of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables puts an emphasis on the speakers monologue. This iambic tetrameter conveys the urgency the speaker feels to have sex with the mistress. An example of this in the poem is the lines Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous
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The meter of this poem is a trochaic tetrameter meaning that a pattern of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is repeated by the author, the author leaves one stressed syllable at the end of every line, leaving the foot incomplete in most lines. The poem’s form contributes to the effect of naiveté, since the situation of a child talking to an animal is a believable one, and not simply a literary device. This helps convey the tone giving the poem a sing-song …show more content…
The Duke reveals himself as a monster when he willing admits to the death of his pervious wife in the line This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together, implying that he caused his first wife’s death. The new bride the Duke is to marry can bargain for a very controlling husband and one who is not afraid to put her in her place, I mean kill her, if she does things he dislikes, or finds her insincere-. The iambic pentameter contributed to the overall tone by creating a dramatic setup of which the monologue is performed. The iambic pentameter also gives the poem a natural speech like quality the makes the poem more relatable, and the rhymed couplets help keep the Duke’s speech tied together giving the lines a more structured pattern to
The meter of this poem is a trochaic tetrameter meaning that a pattern of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is repeated by the author, the author leaves one stressed syllable at the end of every line, leaving the foot incomplete in most lines. The poem’s form contributes to the effect of naiveté, since the situation of a child talking to an animal is a believable one, and not simply a literary device. This helps convey the tone giving the poem a sing-song …show more content…
The Duke reveals himself as a monster when he willing admits to the death of his pervious wife in the line This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together, implying that he caused his first wife’s death. The new bride the Duke is to marry can bargain for a very controlling husband and one who is not afraid to put her in her place, I mean kill her, if she does things he dislikes, or finds her insincere-. The iambic pentameter contributed to the overall tone by creating a dramatic setup of which the monologue is performed. The iambic pentameter also gives the poem a natural speech like quality the makes the poem more relatable, and the rhymed couplets help keep the Duke’s speech tied together giving the lines a more structured pattern to