Marvel's To his coy mistress

In "To His Coy Mistress," Andrew Marvell presents a speaker who appeals to his love through persuasion using an appeal to reason as his main tool. By using different methods of appeal, the speaker hopes to win his mistress' love. From the title, one can see that the speaker is a man addressing a female. The use of the word coy shows the reader that this woman is shy but in an enticing way, she is almost intentionally leading him on.
The overall scheme of this poem follows an appeal to reason, as proven by the first lines of each of the three stanzas. The poem begins with, "Had we but world enough and time," which sets up an argument in which the speaker says what he would do if time permitted. It continues in the second stanza with the first word, "But," which indicates a problem with the speaker's initial thoughts. The "But" begins a stanza in which the speaker introduces the idea that one does not live forever. There isn’t enough time to court because death is near and then passi...