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• The following version of this poem was used to create this Lesson Plan: Donne, John. "The Good Morrow." Poetry Foundation. (Web)

• John Donne referred to this poem as a "sonnet," but he did not use this term in the sense of its literary definition; rather, he seems to have used the term loosely to refer to a love poem.

• "The Good Morrow" is an aubade in three stanzas of seven lines each.

• The stanzas are rhymed ABABCCC--but many of the rhymes are loose slant rhymes rather than strict perfect rhymes.

• The majority of the poem is written in iambic pentameter; the final line of each stanza, however, has an extra iamb.

• The majority of lines are end-stopped, creating a stately rhythm--notably, though, lines 1 and 2 as well as lines 20 and 21 are enjambed, each leaving off with the phrase "thou and I" on one...

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