The Dreams Poetry Quiz

The Narrator is recalling a friend's dream; he never met the people or visited the places described

The narrator describes imaginary people and places he imagined while daydreaming

The narrator describes his own dream of people and places from his past; his recollections reveal his fondness for these memories

The narrator describes his own dream of his past; his memories reveal that he has led a lonely unhappy life

Each stanza is a paragraph about one subject

The second and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme throughout the poem

Every pair of lines includes at least one internal rhyme

The poet uses onomatopoeic words to imitate natural sounds

And the people that peopled the old-time dream

Were pleasant and fair to see,

The other dream ran fast and free,

As the moon benignly shed

Of battles fought in the cause of right,

And of victories nobly won

For there was triumph in his eyes--

And there were tears in mine

The father's dream was sorrowful. The son dreamed of future war.

The son's dream left him feeling sad and worried. The father's dream made him look forward to the future.

The son wanted to share the details of his dream. The father did not want to talk about what he dreamed.

The father dreamed of the boy he once was. The son dreamed of the man he hoped to be.

And the dreamer he walked with them again

The other dream ran fast and free

When the child is done with play

So from our dreams my boy and I

12

4

14

16

A,B,A,B

A,B,C,D

A,B,C,B

A,B,B,A

It does not follow any rules

It has lines and stanzas

It contains figurative language

It has rhythm and rhyme