Edgar Allen Poe's Poem Alone

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Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Alone" is about a person felt invisible and alone and now his life has come to an end. It describes how his childhood had been all dark and alone. He feels miserable, regretful, depressed, and sorrowfulness.
Poe uses imagery to help prompt the poem a little better. He uses phrases like, autumn tint of gold, lightning in the sky, red cliff of the mountain, the cloud that took the form, and the sun that round me rolled. Glow flashing, the lightning in the sky coming from the thunder and the storm, is an example of the illustration is created in the reader’s mind.
He also uses sound like rhyme. A few examples are bring/spring, taken/awaken, tone/alone, fountain/mountain, storm/form, etc. This rhyme creates rhythm in

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