<P> "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (1596), by Walter Raleigh, is a poem that responds to and parodies the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1593) by Christopher Marlowe . In her reply to the shepherd's invitation, the nymph presents her rejection of the shepherd's courtship for a life of pastoral idyll . </P> <P> Both poems are written in the style of traditional pastoral poetry and follow the structure of six four - line stanzas employing a rhyme scheme of AABB, with Raleigh's an almost line - for - line refutation of Marlowe's sentiments . </P>

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