Page 124 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit

“The Good Morrow”
by John Donne, pages 9-10

Vocabulary
troth – word of honor
fancies – whims
slacken – loosen

1. To what is the poem’s title referring?

2. What kind of imagery does Donne use in the first stanza to describe life before the two
loves met?

3. What is the rhyme scheme and meter of this poem?

4. Explain the significance and meaning of lines 6-7.

5. Why do you think Donne repeats the words “world” and “worlds” so frequently in lines
12-14?

6. Line 12 contains an example of what poetic device?

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