To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvel

Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" seems more like a persuasive speech than a conventional poem. The narrator uses intellect and charm to influence his mistress to give up her innocence. Conventional poems use emotions and symbolism to garner the feelings, while the narrator uses scheme, imagery, and rhetorical appeal to gain this love affair that a lifetime would not give.
The opening stanza "Had we but world enough and time/this coyness, lady, were no crime," gives a defensive approach to the woman's relsiliency. yet in the following lines "we would sit down," allows him time to reverse the original thought of this woman. "To walk, and pass our long love's day," is his scheme for her just to take some time out and let them enjoy