This is an analysis of The Dream by John Donne.
Dear love, for nothing less than thee
Would I have broke this happy dream;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXccXXcc caacccddaa aeeaffaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
- Metre: 11110111 11110101 0101 1101111100 111101101 1111111000 1111110101 0111110100 1011111101 1011111101 11010101 111111101 1111 1111110111 11111111 1111011101 1111111111 1101111111 1101011110 1001110111 10110111 11011111 1111 1101111111 11110111 0100011101 0111011100 1111111101 1101010111 0111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
for, thou, when
Epiphora
thee