Amazingly even through all of the revisions, Poe manages to keep his end word rhyme scheme of AABBCC…ETC. Every two end words rhyme before changing rhyme scheme and repeating the process. For example, in the first version of the poem you get the end words of stanza one on respected order “moon” and “June.” The rhyme scheme then changes to “lie” and “eye,” to “dance” and “romance,” to “alas” and “mass.” In the final product it goes “June” and “moon,” to “dim” and “rim,” to “drop” and “top,” to “musically” and “valley.” Even though the all the lines are just about rearranged and or completely different Poe manages to keep his rhyme scheme and musicality consistent throughout all variations of the poem. By the final publication, all the accent marks or dieresis over the e’s in the poem are dropped completely. In this later stage of revision is where Poe spends most of his edits meticulously messing with punctuation and word choice substitutions.
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You also start to see the trend of Poe removing the word “dead” not only from the title but the text and replacing it with the word “sleep.” Poe’s poem through multiple revisions becomes slightly more submerged with the overall meaning becoming less straightforward and more complex. That said, “dead” appears at the end of the poem’s final revision but it is used to differentiate the dead from the lady or Irene creating another fascinating contrast in the themes of acceptance and
You also start to see the trend of Poe removing the word “dead” not only from the title but the text and replacing it with the word “sleep.” Poe’s poem through multiple revisions becomes slightly more submerged with the overall meaning becoming less straightforward and more complex. That said, “dead” appears at the end of the poem’s final revision but it is used to differentiate the dead from the lady or Irene creating another fascinating contrast in the themes of acceptance and