The way Jonathan Swift structures this poem is important to the meaning the poem is trying to convey. Women deceive men, making themselves appear different in an incredibly long and vile process. The narrator tells the story of an innocent man who essentially opens Pandora's box of women's secrets. In the line where the narrator says "Should the queen of love refuse, why has she risen from the stinking slime?" By using the goddess of love when referring to the Roman or Greek goddesses Venus or Aphrodite, this is one of the many ways the narrator mocks Strephon, the pastoral character mortified by a woman's dressing room. The same metaphor is used to mock Strephon in the opening of the poem "The goddess from her chamber issues, dressed in lace, brocade and fabric". This specific metaphor describes this woman, she is so fascinating that she can be called a goddess by Strephon, when in reality the narrator knows that Strephon will think anything else. The point in the poem where Strephon is most dull and Swift's shining moment of poetic devices is finding his chamber pot. “Because here he spits and here he vomits. But oh! poor Strephon's bowels turned when he saw and smelled the towels, gummed, floured and muddy." Swift uses alliteration to emphasize the diction he chose to describe the use of the chamber pot. Then, to convey Strephon's reaction, Swift has the narrator use onomatopoeia to mock "poor Strephon" once again. Finally, the final line of the quote rhymes together seen and smelled, which changes the rhythm of the lines by placing assonance at the center of the line. Once again, Swift used alliteration to complete the idea by exaggerating the smells and completing the surprise that took over Strephon. Overall the rhetorical devices and structure of the poem help to exaggerate the narrator's desire to reject Strephon. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay