The Dream

STRUCTURE

• Three 10 - line stanzas

RHYMINGS SCHEME

• ABBACCDDEE

THEMES

• Sex & Seduction

• Honour

QUOTES

• “Dear love, for nothing less than thee/Would I have broke this happy dream;”

• “It was a theme/For reason, much too strong for fantasy”

• “Thou wak’dst me wisely”

• “Thou art so true, that thoughts of thee suffice/To make dreams truths, and fables histories;”

• “Since thou thought’st it best/Not to dream all my dream, let’s act the rest”

• “Thine eyes and not thy noise, waked me;”

• “Yet I thought thee/(For thou lovest truth) an angel, at first sight”

• “Coming and staying showed thee,thee,/But rising makes me doubt, that now/Thou art not thou/ That love is weak, where fear’s as strong as he;”

• “Perchance as torches which must ready be,/Men light and put out, so thou deal’st with me,/Thou cam’st to kindle, goest to come; then I/Will dream that hope again, but else would die”