In the poem To My Dear and Loving Husband, the author isn’t talking to her husband but to God. In these poem the author uses if for the first three lines. She uses it to emphasize other scenarios, and then pointing out that the right one to themselves. She also uses the word love several times throughout the passage. She uses love to emphasize the strong emotions of how she feels. She also uses the word love to set a serious tone, since when you speak about love you are being serious. Love and like differ since society sees love as the more and stronger emotion. If she had used the word like then the meaning of the poem would had been different and the mood too. She compares her devotion to God by that of a marriage. She feels that her bondage with God is just as important and sacred as those of marriage vows. By doing this she is using a metaphor. She also emphasize her love by saying that she will never leave that devotion and feeling by all the gold in the world.