Elegy X: The Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA DEDFDFDF GHGHIJIJ KL| Image of her whom I love more than she | A |
| Whose fair impression in my faithful heart | B |
| Makes me her medal and makes her love me | A |
| As Kings do coins to which their stamps impart | B |
| The value go and take my heart from hence | C |
| Which now is grown too great and good for me | A |
| Honours oppress weak spirits and our sense | C |
| Strong objects dull the more the less we see | A |
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| When you are gone and Reason gone with you | D |
| Then Fantasy is queen and soul and all | E |
| She can present joys meaner than you do | D |
| Convenient and more proportional | F |
| So if I dream I have you I have you | D |
| For all our joys are but fantastical | F |
| And so I 'scape the pain for pain is true | D |
| And sleep which locks up sense doth lock out all | F |
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| After a such fruition I shall wake | G |
| And but the waking nothing shall repent | H |
| And shall to love more thankful sonnets make | G |
| Than if more honour tears and pains were spent | H |
| But dearest heart and dearer image stay | I |
| Alas true joys at best are dream enough | J |
| Though you stay here you pass too fast away | I |
| For even at first life's taper is a snuff | J |
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| Filied with her love may I be rather grown | K |
| Mad with much heart than idiot with none | L |
John Donne
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Graydon Rosenthal: I have an assignment for school and we have to choose 3 poems for our theme. My theme is "Following Your Dreams" and I chose "The Dream" by John Donne. Now I searched it up and found that this text is incorrect entirely. None of this poem matches the actual one. I'm very frustrated because I had to do a whole analysis on the poem and I just found out that this is the wrong poem. Like wth?! How are you going to put a fraud-ass poem in for the actual one? Do Better
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