Andrew Marvell's famous lyric To His Coy Mistress is a metaphysical poem, that means it contains many striking images and strong metaphors in addition there are also references to distant lands. The form is regular and traditional. The poem is written in rhyming couplets and the frequent use of the run-on line brings the sound closer to that of natural speech and lends the poem a sense of modernity. In addition it is noticeable the use of assonances and alliterations that are spread in the text. The register used by the poet is very high; the reader can understand, so, that the speaking voice is totally caught by the lady In the first lines the assonance words (time, crime, side, tide, ..) recall the suffering of the man.

The first two lines lead readers into a poem of persuasion, in which the speaker attempts to convince a mistress to love him."Had we but World enough, and Time, / This coyness Lady were no crime." His point is that these lovers do not have world enough or time enough to wait for a sexual relationship.  Therefore the lady's coyness is in fact a crime. From these two lines alone, the reader understands the speaker's goal. In  the third line, the poet starts to imagine possible situation that could happen if the two had time and space. In fact he would sit down and think which way to use to pass the time. In the fifth line he starts to compare himself to the Humber, a little river in England, and her to the Indian Ganges - finding rubies - that fact underlines her superiority. This statement create an exotic atmosphere.  Going on he uses the semantic field of religion to underline his deep love for her and he uses a simile with the Jews to re-force his fidelity.