The Passionate Shepherd and To His Coy Mistress

But it uses irregular sentence length. The writer uses a metaphysical combination of strong ideals and complex intellectual ideas to bring across his strong feelings, very different to Marlowe's poem that was very simple and unemotional. The writer uses three irregular sections using different methods to woo his mistress.

The first section starts at 'Had we but the world' on line one and ends at 'Nor would I love at lower rate.' on line 20. The method employed in this section uses the Court Pastoral Tradition in a sarcastic and humorous way.

The first two lines:

'Had we but world enough, or time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.'

Stated that if the writer had enough time then it would not matter that his girlfriend is reluctant as he could spend forever convincing her to love him. 'We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love's day.

This uses the Court Pastoral Tradition, exaggerating it and making the surroundings idyllic and dream-like as in Marlowe's poems, making the act of love seem very easy and casual. 'Thou by the Indian Ganges side

Shoust rubies find: I by the tide'

This uses the typical clichÉ that you can be miles apart but the love for each other keeps them together. Also, it uses another typical idea of the Court Pastoral Tradition, that nature is perfect and beautiful, identified in how the writer is able to find rubies b ...