Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe The poem Narrative

Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe

The poem • Narrative Poem- tells a story • Young lovers separated by death • The poem consists of six stanzas that range from six- eight lines • The poem uses repetition and rhyme to create a melodious (musical) feel • The repeated use of the end rhymes "sea, " "Lee, " "we, " and "me" offer a link from stanza to stanza throughout the poem

Rhyme Scheme • The poem's rhyme scheme begins simply with an ababcb pattern but gets more complicated as the poem progresses, repeating rhymes within a line (internal rhyme) and ending with the pattern abcbddbb in the last stanza • The lines increase in length and in number in this last stanza • These devices—the increasingly complex rhyme scheme and lengthening of lines—allow the poem to intensify in dramatic pitch

• The predominant rhythm(Meter) that the poem uses is Rhythm the anapest • Anapest is a type of meter consisting of three syllables in an unstressed, stressed pattern • In the first line, the first syllable of "many" and the word "year" are stressed after two unaccented syllables • It was ma/ny and ma/ny a year/ a go • Anapest is an exciting, climactic rhythm that builds in momentum • To vary the rhythm, the poem also uses iambic feet, or pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables,