write down the summary of 'The good horrow and the relic.
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‘The Good-Morrow’ by John Donne was published in 1633 in his posthumous collection Songs and Sonnets. The poem is generally considered to be one of Donne’s first. It has also been categorized as a sonnet even though it stretches to twenty-one lines rather than the traditional fourteen. The poem is divided into three sets of seven lines that conform to a rhyming pattern of ababccc.
This is a very unique pattern of rhyme that is only made more interesting by the varying pattern of the meter. The majority of the lines contain ten syllables but each stanza ends with a line of twelve syllables. This variation was likely done to maintain a reader’s engagement with both the narrative and the text itself.
It is also interesting to note how the stanzas are divided within the seven lines. The first four lines introduce something about the speaker’s love. While the next three reflect more deeply on the topic and sometimes provide an answer to a previously posed question.
The Good-Morrow by John DonneThe poem begins with the speaker noting how his life, and his lover’s, did not truly begin until they met. Up until they came together they were like children suckling from their mother’s breasts. He knows now that any pleasure he has previously was fake. His current love is the only real thing he has ever experienced.
In the next stanza, he describes how there is no way for their love to fail because it controls everything he sees. His whole life is driven by it, therefore he has no reason to want anything outside of their small bedroom. The poem concludes with the speaker stating that their love is balanced like a healthy body. Their emotional and physical states are connected so deeply that nothing can go wrong.