Woman's Constancy

Summary

Themes

Speaker's Voice

Key analysis

Time

Commitment

Fear

Loyalty

Cynical

Ironic

Urgent

Childish

Unsure

Flippant

Amusing

A speaker addressing his ,over before they spend the night together. He questions he love, honour, values and commitment. He does this by presenting all the reasons she may not love him.

Pattern of prepositions / temporal adverbs

‘Now’, ‘one whole day’, ‘tomorrow’

Emphasises the speakers concern over how their love will withstand time.

Conduplictaio

‘purposed change and falsehood’, ‘no way but falsehood’

Implies women are false and unequal in their love, indicating a sense of anxiety in the speaker.

Pattern of hyperbolic arguments

‘Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?’, ‘Tomorrow when thou leav’st what wilt thou say?’

A sense of inring in his arguments conveys the speakers persuasiveness.