Donne's Love's Alchemy has a bitter and towards the end misogynistic tone. And I love this poem. Not because of its cynicism or misogyny but because I have been there before. The poem's conceit is a comparison of true love to the quest for elixir sought by alchemists. The first stanza simply expounds on this metaphor and lacks the aforementioned bitterness. Lines are married into couplets with a few exceptions and enjambement rushes the reader through the middle of the poem. This rushing comes shortly after Donne declares claims of true love as "imposture" in line 6 and builds the intensity until the couplet in lines 10-11. The next stanza is a change of pace and the enjamebent here only serves to finish the (false according to Donne) idea of Donne's servant being as happy as he can be through love. Line 18's "loving wretch" can either refer to this servant or just any loving wretch in general who is in this situation. I think we all know that loving wretch. The guy who claims hes in love but you just want to scream "Thats not love!!" at. This is mainly why I like this poem. Ive seen this, and Im glad Donne has too and wrote a poem about it. The final couplet is where you get the doseof misogyny. While I disagree with this as a position Ive felt this way before when frustrated with the female sex and I feel thats the way it is intended in this poem. Donne is obviously frustrated at other's claims of having found true love by loving their woman's minds. So while they may not be the most enlightened lines in the poem they still reflect the frustration in the poem and are less misogynistic than they appear.