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... personifies time to describe how swiftly it flies by. The speaker then continues to make jokes regarding the woman's virginity: Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust (25-30). Inside ... ...
... a troubadour-esque wooing into a troubling threat. He warns her that one day, "they beauty shall no more be found" and if she does not act soon, she will die in a marble vault where only worms will take her virginity (435, 436). The image of a woman with worms crawling through her untouched skin is morbid and completely out of context if it ... ...
... reality, the man now reveals to the woman what will happen once time prevails, as it is sure to do; "Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honor tun to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine ... ...
... this good again and that he won't be there when she grows old nor will anyone because no one will want her anymore. He uses a metonymy when he says "thy marble vault" which is representing her tomb. The speaker refers to her virginity as a "quaint honor" making it sound that the honor in preserving her virginity is insignificant and it will ... ...
