The Good-Morrow Brett K

Hope class is going well, sorry that I am not there.

The poem is interestingly structured. It is 3 stanzas of seven lines. The seven lines are actually broken into a quatrain with an ABAB rhyme scheme written in Iambic Pentameter and then there is a triplet rhymed CCC.

The first thing I noticed while reading this poem out line is Donne's use of assonance in the first stanza, constantly repeating the long E sound. I'm not sure what effect he wanted to have, but it does make it sound great.

The poem is somewhat chronological. I think that the first stanza represents a sort of birth, using words like suck'd and wean'd, discussing his life before love. The second stanza is his current life in love, describing that one little room becomes an everywhere because love can take you to amazing places, and make you feel amazing things. The third stanza discusses his immortality through love, explaining that if both people feel a sort of connection to each other that is equally powerful, it will live on forever.

I think "beauty" in the first stanza is standing in for a woman, so would that be synecdoche?

Also in the final stanza "My face in the thine eye, thine in mine appears" I believe is metonymy? I couldn't find any other examples of figurative language we discussed, but I'm sure there is more.