Topic > Compare The Passionate Shepherd with His Love - 702

Both have line lengths reduced to seven words. Both have six stanzas with similar rhymes in each stanza. For example, “And we sit upon the rocks, seeing the shepherds feed their flocks” (Marlowe, page 598). Both authors use rich rhyme in this line and throughout the poem. Accents in the poem are found at the end of each line of the stanza, such as "rocks" and "flock." In Marlowe's first two lines there is not the same rhyme as the middle one but he underlines the letter "L" to make it more fluid and attractive to the reader. Raleigh doesn't emphasize the "L" because he's trying to make it less attractive