DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:  "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe A rhyming tercet followed by rhyming couplets -- the poem feels connected at first then goes off, trying to keep things together style wise.  Content wise, the poem seems so sure of itself and then the last half of the poem is full of rhetorical questions. How is the poem so sure of itself in the beginning?  Look at how it starts with a verb and exclamation, "Take this kiss upon the brow! / And, in parting from you now, / Thus much let me avow:"  Look at how the actions are precise and direct from the speaker to the subject.  There's conviction in these lines which decay as the confession continues, "You are not wrong who deem / That my days have been a dream;"  note the semi-colon here which ties in the acknowledgement of the dream with:      yet if hope has flown away      In a night, or in a day,      In a vision, or in none,      Is ...