In reading “To his Coy Mistress” there are three literary
devices that jump out at me, rhyming words, parallel structure and
allusion.
The first device rhyming words links the first
line to the second line, the third line to the fourth line and so
on.
Marvell, in turn, uses this device as the basis for the
next device, the poem’s parallel structure. First, every pair of lines is linked by a
rhyme pair. Second, these pairs of rhyme follow each other as though they are in a
single file line. Consequently, Marvell’s use of parallelism gives firm order to the
first stanza.
The third literary device Marvell uses is
allusion. This occurs in the middle of the first stanza: “Till the conversion of the
Jews”. This line gets at the notion of the continual and long-lasting of the rejection
of the Jesus as the Messiah.
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