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I Love Time Richard Lovelace Scrutiny  Explore Loved

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'Have I not loved thee much and long,
A tedious twelve hours' space?'
Back •'have I not loved' corrupts romantic love into sexual love
•'tedious twelve' alliteration - harsh sound resembling disaproving tutting noise towards her wasting his time
•or acoustic imagery of a clock ticking to emhpasise the passage of time
•Here and later in the poem uses 'loved' as making 'love' not feeling 'love' => eros

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