One line from "To His Coy Mistress"

In Andrew Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress," the poem begins with a conditional statement with very intriguing syntax. "Had we both world enough, and time." The one word, "had" alone sets the tone for the rest of the stanza by showing that the scenarios about to be presented are conditional and not reality. Basically, what is to fallow is an ideal situation that does not exist or could not exist. The second part draws my attention because of its somewhat awkward syntax and punctuation. Marvell puts an intentional pause before the word time, which is the overarching theme for the poem. He slows done the pace of the poem with his punctuation as if holding time. In addition, was purposefully put as the the last word in the line to draw emphasis to that particular word. Andrew Marvell starts off his poem in a way that forces the reader to think about his intention even before the poem starts.