The Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDECCFFGAAGHHIIAA AJJAKLAAMM| Dear love for nothing less than thee | A |
| Would I have broke this happy dream | B |
| It was a theme | B |
| For reason much too strong for phantasy | C |
| Therefore thou waked'st me wisely yet | D |
| My dream thou brok'st not but continued'st it | E |
| Thou art so truth that thoughts of thee suffice | C |
| To make dreams truths and fables histories | C |
| Enter these arms for since thou thought'st it best | F |
| Not to dream all my dream let's act the rest | F |
| As lightning or a taper's light | G |
| Thine eyes and not thy noise waked me | A |
| Yet I thought thee | A |
| For thou lov'st truth an angel at first sight | G |
| But when I saw thou saw'st my heart | H |
| And knew'st my thoughts beyond an angels art | H |
| When thou knew'st what I dreamt when thou knew'st when | I |
| Excess of joy would wake me and cam'st then | I |
| I must confess it could not choose but be | A |
| Prophane to think thee anything but thee | A |
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| Comming and staying showed thee thee | A |
| But rising makes me doubt that now | J |
| Thou art not thou | J |
| That Love is weak where fear's as strong as he | A |
| 'Tis not all spirit pure and brave | K |
| If mixture it of Fear Shame Honour have | L |
| Perchance as torches which must ready be | A |
| Men light and put out so thou deal'st with me | A |
| Thou cam'st to kindle go'st to come Then I | M |
| Will dream that hope again but else would die | M |
John Donne
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