...moves by starts and stops: Had we but world enough and time This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and...thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, And thirty thousand to the rest; . . . But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying...

...of the world: I would Love you ten years before the Flood: And you should, if you please, refuse Tdl the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than Empires, and more slow. Their love, he teasingly suggests, may span the whole of human history from Noah's flood to the final...

...should if you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jews, 10 My vegetable Love should grow Vaster man Empires, and more slow, An hundred years should go...thy Forehead Gaze, Two hundred to adore each Breast: 1 5 But thirty thousand to the rest. An Age at least to every part And the last Age should show your...

...find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion...love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. I will use the pedagogical red pencil, though I am loath. World, as distinguished from time, is not...

...would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood: And you should, if you please, refuse, 10 Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. A hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. 15 Two hundred to adore each...

...Marvell points out the lack of urgency in such praise. "Had we but world enough, and time," he says, My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires...adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. Lovers, though, cannot afford such leisure, since "time's winged chariot" is always "hurrying near."...

...and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime, ... I would Love you ten years hefore the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetahle love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. . . . We notice the high speed, the succession...

...exaggeration for comic or dramatic effect. Andrew Marvell uses hyperbole in "To His Coy Mistress": An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and...adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. Iamb: Metrical unit or foot in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed. "The...

...quadruplets' mother has the patience of Job. Hyperbole Exaggerated language used for emphasis or comic effect. "An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and...adore each breast; But thirty thousand to the rest..." - Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Strategies for Success on the SAT 2005: Critical Reading & Writing...

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