he had so much time he would wait forever to love her slowly and gently He would spend hundreds of years praising her eyes breasts and each part of her beauty He says An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes Then Marvell changes his tone He reminds her that time is passing quickly He says he always hears Time s wing d chariot hurrying near This means that death is always coming closer He warns her that after death her beauty will be gone Nobody can enjoy love after death So Marvell proposes to her to enjoy love now while they are still young and fresh Use of Conceits A conceit is a clever surprising comparison between two very different things This poem is full of conceit For example Marvell compares his love to slow-growing vegetables He says My vegetable Love should grow Vaster than Empires Here the poet means that he wants to admire her beauty patiently by taking time like slow-growing vegetables And his love will grow stronger with time Time s wing d chariot is another conceit Here Marvell is comparing time to a fast chariot chasing them It means death is coming closer with every minute So he warns his mistress that they should enjoy love while they are still alive Then Marvell uses another conceit to show that love is not possible after death He says that nobody can love hug or kiss in a grave though it is a private place As he writes The grave s a fine and private place But none I think do there embrace Marvell s conceits make this poem entertaining and memorable Symbols We find many symbols in this poem One powerful symbol is morning dew In line the poet compares the mistress's youthful skin to morning dew Morning dew vanishes as the day progresses It suggests that time will ruin her youthful beauty So morning dew is a symbol of youth which fades very quickly Dust and ashes are symbols of death The poet says that his mistress's virginity will turn to dust and his lust will turn to ashes It means that death will soon come for them and they will not get enough time to enjoy love Form Meter Rhyme Scheme The poem is written in rhyming couplets which means every two lines rhyme The rhyme scheme is AA BB CC and so on This gives the poem a smooth and musical flow It is written in iambic tetrameter Language and Tone The language of the poem is rich clever and powerful He uses a polite and romantic tone at the beginning to admire the beauty of his coy mistress The poem then shifts to a serious tone to talk about time death and the grave We find a passionate tone at the end when he asks her to enjoy love now In fine To His Coy Mistress is a beautiful and clever love poem Marvell uses the Carpe Diem idea to say that life is short and we should enjoy the present moment Marvell s deep feelings and smart logic to explain love clever comparisons and symbols make this poem entertaining and memorable