Edgar Allan Poe’s 19th century poem “Annabel Lee,” is an elegy that Poe wrote about a lover he once had. The speaker Poe used talks about his lover as if they had grown up together and met when they were young in a “kingdom by the sea.” and how madly in love they were until “A wind blew out of a cloud…”, making this lover sick and eventually killing her. The moody, melancholy, Poe-like speaker in this poem is devastated by this, seeing as she was the love of his life, and he blames the angels above for taking her, claiming them to be jealous of the epic love they shared. Poe romanticizes this scene by using several gothic particulars, for instance when the speaker watches as Annabel Lee’s relatives come and take her away, putting her in the
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The first stanza has a rhyme scheme of a(ago), b(sea), a(know), b(Lee), b(thought), b(me) which introduces the reader to the singsong rhythm that takes place. The second stanza goes on to have the rhyme scheme d(child), b(sea), e(love), b(Lee), f(heaven), b(me). Looking to stanza three, the rhyme scheme goes g(ago), b(sea), h(chilling), b(Lee), i(came), b(me), j(sepulcher), b(sea). Now that we are through the first three stanzas, we see that the b sound is the only sound that is in every stanza and that we’re introduced to new rhyme schemes of seemingly indifferent patterns in the odd-numbered lines. Reading ahead through the reaming three stanzas, we see that this pattern continues. Stanza four goes f(Heaven), b(me), g(know), b(sea), j(night), b(Lee); stanza five has a rhythm of e(love), b(we), b(we), k(above), b(sea), l(soul), b(Lee); and the sixth and final stanza is m(dreams), b(Lee), n(eyes), b(Lee), o(side), o(bride), b(sea), b(sea). The constant use of rhyme scheme b is what presents us with the singsong feel of this piece and makes it feel like a “normal” poem. Choosing this form of rhyme scheme helps the poem feel more pleasant to read, seeing how it is eerie and …show more content…
He chose a singsong rhyme scheme that emphasizes the depressing feel that the speaker gives off by using the b sound repeatedly in each stanza. He often used the same words (sea, Lee, me) for the b sound that gave this poem its rhythmic scheme. The anapestic and iambic feet used throughout the poem helped give us a rhythm to hold on to, as well as the dimeteric and trimetric line lengths that Poe used. Through the poem, we read that Poe used several more anapestic meters than the iambic meters, yet still kept the poem easy flowing and strongly rhythmic. After reading this piece of work from Poe, the reader can take away that the speaker is not in his right mindset and is a bit crazy. The intense use of imagery to speak about the death of Annabel Lee and the reason, and how she died, is fairly deranged and makes the reader see the beginnings of the speakers’ creepy sense. In the final stanza when the speaker talks about how death could never stop their undying love, he also shares that he slips into her sepulcher each night to lie down beside her, which is the part that truly shows the creepy, dark, and twisted outlook that the speaker possesses. This 19th century poem that Edgar Allan Poe wrote is eerie and deep, showing the dark and depressing part of Poes
The first stanza has a rhyme scheme of a(ago), b(sea), a(know), b(Lee), b(thought), b(me) which introduces the reader to the singsong rhythm that takes place. The second stanza goes on to have the rhyme scheme d(child), b(sea), e(love), b(Lee), f(heaven), b(me). Looking to stanza three, the rhyme scheme goes g(ago), b(sea), h(chilling), b(Lee), i(came), b(me), j(sepulcher), b(sea). Now that we are through the first three stanzas, we see that the b sound is the only sound that is in every stanza and that we’re introduced to new rhyme schemes of seemingly indifferent patterns in the odd-numbered lines. Reading ahead through the reaming three stanzas, we see that this pattern continues. Stanza four goes f(Heaven), b(me), g(know), b(sea), j(night), b(Lee); stanza five has a rhythm of e(love), b(we), b(we), k(above), b(sea), l(soul), b(Lee); and the sixth and final stanza is m(dreams), b(Lee), n(eyes), b(Lee), o(side), o(bride), b(sea), b(sea). The constant use of rhyme scheme b is what presents us with the singsong feel of this piece and makes it feel like a “normal” poem. Choosing this form of rhyme scheme helps the poem feel more pleasant to read, seeing how it is eerie and …show more content…
He chose a singsong rhyme scheme that emphasizes the depressing feel that the speaker gives off by using the b sound repeatedly in each stanza. He often used the same words (sea, Lee, me) for the b sound that gave this poem its rhythmic scheme. The anapestic and iambic feet used throughout the poem helped give us a rhythm to hold on to, as well as the dimeteric and trimetric line lengths that Poe used. Through the poem, we read that Poe used several more anapestic meters than the iambic meters, yet still kept the poem easy flowing and strongly rhythmic. After reading this piece of work from Poe, the reader can take away that the speaker is not in his right mindset and is a bit crazy. The intense use of imagery to speak about the death of Annabel Lee and the reason, and how she died, is fairly deranged and makes the reader see the beginnings of the speakers’ creepy sense. In the final stanza when the speaker talks about how death could never stop their undying love, he also shares that he slips into her sepulcher each night to lie down beside her, which is the part that truly shows the creepy, dark, and twisted outlook that the speaker possesses. This 19th century poem that Edgar Allan Poe wrote is eerie and deep, showing the dark and depressing part of Poes