By Edgar Allen Poe

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A Dream within a Dream

• By Edgar Allen Poe
• Original Publication by Flag of Our Union in 1849

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Thesis

• This poem should be accepted by Glencoe
  Publishing Company because of its unique rhythm
  and rhyme scheme which would be informal and not
  having a set number of stressed and unstressed
  beats.

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Rhythm
The Rhythm scheme is not quite free verse but it
still has somewhat of a pattern. The first two
lines have three feet, while the next one has one
and then it goes back to two feet. This repeats
randomly throughout the poem

• take this kiss upon the brow and,
  in parting from you now, thus much
  let me avow- you are not wrong who
  deem that my days have been a dream

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Free verse

• Free verse poems are poems that have no fixed
  patterns of meters or rhymes
• Also it being a free verse having a different
  rhyme and rhythm scheme making it different then
  other poems.
• This poem is unlike others because of its unique
  rhyme scheme

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Rhyme scheme

• Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming words in a
  stanza or a poem.
• The rhyme scheme in A Dream within a Dream uses
  couplets for the most part with exception of two
  lines that rhyme in threes.
• Each couplet rhymes different than the others
  except for couplets 4-5, 10-11, and 23-24 where
  they rhyme seem or deem with dream.

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Allusion

• Grains of golden sand
• Line 15 has an allusion in it
• Back in 1848 they discovered gold in California
  and the grains came in because there was gold
  dust when settlers panned gold.

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Syllables

• This poem has different number of syllables per
  line but not out of the ordinary.
• Examples
• Is it therefore the less gone?-This one has
  seven
• All that we see or seem this one has six
• Is but a dream within a dream.- and this one
  has 8 yet there right after each other.

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Motif

• Motif is the significant word description idea or
  image that is repeated through out a literary
  work and related to the them.
• Motif is in this poem because of the repetition
  of dream in which he was making a point to say
  that is everything a dream or is it real?

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Atmosphere

• Atmosphere is the emotional quality, or mood, of
  a piece of writing, especially a mood
  established in part of the setting.
• The atmosphere of this poem is gloomy in the fact
  that the narrator is leaving from a love one.
  This is show in the first two lines.
• Take this kiss upon the brow!
• And, in parting from you now,

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Stanzas

• Stanzas are groups of lines forming a unit in a
  poem
• This poem is set in a two stanza form but
  different number of syllables and pattern of
  rhyme and rhythm.

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Conclusion

• Glencoe Publishing Company should add A Dream
  within a Dream for many reasons.
• Many of those reason are
• Syllables
• Stanzas
• Free verse
• Motif
• Allusion
• Rhythm
• Rhyme scheme