To the virgins + Athlete dying young

In to the virgins, virgins are beseeched to seize the day and get married before you get old and no one wants to marry you. In athlete dying young, someone has died at the top of their game with the record for their sport. Athlete is about how wonderful it is to go out on top and if one were to choose the method through which their life ends, this would be the most preffered. Virgins also follows this theme of seizing the day and going out on top. Virgins tells of the glory which the athlete experiences just through a different scope. Virgins tells of the benefits of marrying when given and the chance and tells people that being a shell of yourself is not much like being alive. Athlete shares the same sentiment telling how great and glorious of the athlete and that even though their life was cut short it would not have gotten any better. Both also carry brief lines that are broken up into quatranes that are short in line. The effect of the shorter lines in virgins is to show how simple of a message he has and how quaint a message it is. Athlete's message, as commuicated through the short lines, is that even though his life was short, it was sweet and he was able to leave before it became any less sweet.