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the diction of this poem is very old style and a little confusing at first as the reader may not be used to such an old style of writing. the use of thee and thine and morrow and t'was, etc. make the poem have a very old world feel that we don't have in poetry now. it makes it seem a lot older, mainly because it is. it was difficult at first read of the first stanza because of this and because of the use of commas and questions. the way the lines are broken up make it hard to read through but once you get the rhytm of the poem down it goes by smoother and not as choppy. Also the geographical diction used to describe the lovers. It starts in the second stanza where Donne talks about the sea-discoveres finding new worlds and the maps deal. he continues in the third stanza with the geographical references about the hemispheres and north and west. it puts the two lovers love into a better context than just they love eachother a lot. when he talks about possesing a world, worlds are rather large and this means that their love for eachother is also rather large. hemishperes are also very large, he's saying they are two halves of a whole and together they make the world.