Alone By Edgar Allan Poe

Fill in the blanks with the missing words

From childhood's hour I have not been (a)

As others were; I have not ____________ (a)

As others saw; I could not ____________ (b)

My passions from a common spring. (b)

From the same source I have not taken (c)

My sorrow; I could not ____________ (c)

My heart to joy at the same tone; (d)

And all I loved, I loved ________________ (d)

Then- in my childhood, in the ____________ (e)

Of a most stormy life- was drawn (e)

From every depth of good and ____________ (f)

The mystery which binds me still: (f)

From the torrent, or the fountain, (g)

From the red cliff of the _________________, (g)

From the sun that round me rolled (h)

In its autumn tint of ______________, (h)

From the lightning in the sky (i)

As it passed me flying ______________, (i)

From the thunder and the ___________, (j)

And the cloud that took the form (j)

(When the rest of Heaven was __________ ) (k)

Of a demon in my view.(k)

Missing words

1) mountain

2) dawn

3) bring

4) gold

5) storm

6) blue

7) awaken

8) alone

9) by

10) ill

11) seen

Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand--

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep--while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Answer the following questions

1. what’s the rhyme scheme of the poem

2. what are some examples of repetition , personification ,alliteration

,onomatopoeia and assonance