How do Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress and John Donne's The Sunne Rising compare as love poems?

... How do Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress and John Donne's The Sunne Rising compare as love poems? John Donne and Andrew Marvell may both be classified as metaphysical poets, yet their immediate style, feeling and argument presentation differs vastly. Most noticeably, the poems are written in strikingly different manners with Donne's rebellious and unruly non-uniform line lengths contrasting with Marvell's almost fully justified column of words. Andrew Marvell has also used the rigid iambic pentameter and a simple aa/bb/cc... rhyming scheme as opposed to Donne's far more complex arrangement. Although both poems are alike in that they both have three verses, each one differs by the way the poet sets out his argument and addresses the reader. In To His Coy Mistress, Marvell opens with a well structured and hopefully compelling line of reasoning utilising gentle flattery and hyperbole to persuade his mistress. As well as the feeling of space

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