A Dream Within A Dream

End Rhyme

• "O God!can I not grasp"Them with a tighter clasp"
• These two lines are end rhymes because dream rhymes with seem.
• These two lines are saying that the narrator is trying to grip it tighter.
• These two lines are a small description of him seeing things in a dream. 

Alliteration

• "You are not wrong, who deem."
• The words wrong and who both have the "w" sound.
• This is part of the message of the narrator leaving.
• The narrator is saying goodbye to the love one last time.
• Also, this line is saying that people who are judging aren't wrong.

Metaphor

• "Yet if hope has flown away"
• This sentence is comparing the word hope to a thing.
• The thing is something that is flying and hope is being compared.
• These two things are unlike factors that make up metaphors.

Hyperbole

• "Of a surf-tormented shore."
• This is exaggerating too much and isn't true.
• A shore isn't actually tormented by the surfing.
• This is adding more emphasis to the second stanza

Repetition

• "While I weep-while I weep"
• The phrase is repeated twice because it is to add an effect.
• The narrator is saying that he is weeping in the beach.

Stanza One

• The narrator is letting go of his love one last time and is now sad.
• The first stanza is calm and the tone is sad.
• The narrator's heart has broken and nothing can lift him up.
• Text Evidence:"And, in parting from you now."
• Text Evidence::Yet if hope has flown away"

Stanza Two

• The narrator is writing this stanza more intensive.
• The narrator is now at a beach full of anger and sorrow.
• He can't do anything he tries to do and fails giving him no hope.
• Text Evidence:"I stand amid the roar."
• Text Evidence:"While I weep-While I weep"

Metaphorical Meaning

• This poem is saying that life is unexpected.
• Life can sometimes be very unreal like a dream.
• It may seem like a dream, but it is reality and it will never change.

Metaphorical Meaning

• This poem is saying that life is unexpected.
• Life can sometimes be very unreal like a dream.
• It may seem like a dream, but it is reality and it will never change.
• Text Evidence:"Is all that we see or seem"