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This paper analyzes both the form and the structure of Sir Walter Raleigh's 16th Century English poem entitled "The Nymphy's Reply to a Shepherd". According to the paper, the poem is a response poem that uses much of the same language and structure of the poem that it is replying to. This paper examines how the structure and the form of the poem helps to reinforce the tone and the ideas expressed in the piece.

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"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (as printed in Hannah, 1891) is 16th Century writer's Sir William Raleigh response to a poem written by Christopher Marlow entitled "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". Marlow's poem was a proposition to the nymph to come to live with him in the wilderness where they will survive on their love and the gifts that nature provides them with. Raleigh's response introduces the idea of change and time as the nymph lists off all of the things that the shepherd is offering to her and arguing that all of these things will fade or decay with time. Raleigh's response poem exemplifies the structure and form that..."

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