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short and thus this may be the only chance she has to lose her virginity.The mood of the poem changes totally whenever the man

over-steps the line and makes a sick, morbid remark: ?The worms shall try that long preserved virginity, and

your quaint honour turns to dust.?This perverse attempt by the man to persuade the young

innocent girl to sleep with him before it is too late and she takes her

virginity to the grave where she loses it to the worms.? He is trying to let the woman know she will

keep her dignity and maidenhead as long as she has sex with him.? Although this is a sickening thought it

seems to be a powerful, persuasive argument.The description of the grave as a ?fine place? shows the

desperation of the man in question.When he goes on to say: ?…But none, I think, do there embrace.? I think that the poet expects us to start feeling sorry

for the man now.? We are then met with

the smart simile; ?Now let us sport us while we may, and now, like amorous

birds of prey??Almost immediately after this simile we come across the

first and only example of assonance in the entire poem, when the man says: ?Let us roll all our strength, and all our sweetness, up

into one ball.? This was implying that the two of them become one in the

ceremony of sexual intercourse instead of being singular and apart from each

other.These final lines are one last gasp attempt to her to let

him fulfil his wish and persuade his ?target? to sleep with him.? I

am not sure why, but I get the impression that by the end of the poem the

mistress is ready to ?give in? to the man.?

This theory is due to the brighter atmosphere, which develops after the

second verse. The

structure of the poem varies, in that the second and third verses are

relatively short compared to the first verse. The

mood of the poem is inconsistent as it contradicts itself between the start and

end of the poem but overall it is quite an intricate and nice atmosphere as the

protagonist spends most of his time comparing the woman to beautiful,

picturesque locations. Despite

my disliking of ?Old English? and love poems in general, I must say that I did,

in fact, enjoy analysing this poem as it helped me understand the language used

several hundred years ago and gave us an insight into this man?s mind. In contrast to ?To His Coy Mistress? this poem was