The double beat after nymph helps us understand that Hamlet regards Ophelia simultaneously as seductress, mythic figure, and, because emphasis can be ironic, repressed teen-vamp. Finally, the sequence of pauses, which twist the whole sentence into a highly stylized insult, shows us the prince is hugely tense, emotionally involved with the girl, and hostile to her at the same time.

George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, loc. 248