Although Raleigh's title does not describe the nymph, his response is an exercise in freedom to think for oneself and express one's values. Marlowe's poem offers no evidence that his "love" is a nymph; however, Raleigh transforms the speaker into a nymph who playfully mocks the shepherd's request. Raleigh clarifies this intention by using six four-line stanzas and the same iambic tetrameter used by Marlowe. The nymph's choice to mirror the shepherd's structure indicates that her “response” is a systematic deconstruction of his argument. Mockingly, she admits, “if all the world and love were young and truth in every shepherd's tongue,” then she would “live with you and be your love”; in other words, the nymph jokingly suggests that these propositions are not true. Using the same rhythm and reversing the shepherd's requests, the nymph echoes those of the shepherd.