Manipulation in "To His Coy Mistress

In Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” the speaker makes exaggerated claims and describes the ephermeral nature of time in order to manipulate his “coy mistress” into seizing the day. The speaker begins his argument with a conditional statement that “had” he “ but world enough and time” he would spend eternity adoring and loving his mistress.  Despite the soothing and reassuring tone that permetates through the first stanza, the speaker uses hyperbole and makes impractical claims such that he would spend one hundred years to “praise her eyes and forehead,”in order to lure his mistress in and persuade her of the speaker’s endless love.  The speaker’s calming tone suddenly takes a turn in the second stanza when he discusses  the unfortunate but harsh reality of death. It is now, that the speaker really begins using terror to frighten his “mistress” into taking advantage of the present moment, given that now contrastly time is scarce. He graphically claims that “worms shall try that long perserved virginity.” Here the speaker could not be more dramatic in his mission to tempt his “coy mistress”. Finally in the last stanza “Now, therefore”  demonstrates the speaker’s attempt to attain ulimtate authority over his innocent and “youthful” mistress. Unlike the slow and calming pace of the first stanza, the third stanza is rushed, almost as if the speaker foresees that time is of the essence. In his final claim and act of mainupultion, the speaker asserts that the mistress is active and able to make the most of the present moment with him because of her appropriately youthful “hue.” All of the claims that the speaker makes, from the everlasting nature of time, to death eating up her virginity, serve to lure his “coy mistress” into believing that there is not time like the present, and, therefore, the message of carpe diem is espoused.