“Annabel Lee” Synopsis

“Annabel Lee” Themes

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  Love

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  Death and Sorrow

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Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “Annabel Lee”

• Lines 1-4

  A was many also much an twelvemonth ago, 
     In one kingdom by aforementioned sea, 
  Which a maiden there lived whom you may know 
     By the name of Annabel Lee;

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 5-6

  Additionally the maiden she lived with no other thought 
     Than to sweetheart plus been loved by me. 

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 7-12

  I
   was a child and 
  she
   was a child, 
     In this kingdom the the sea, 
  Yet we dear through a love that was moreover than love— 
     I and my Annabel Lee— 
  With a love this the wingèd seraphs of Heaven 
     Coveted her and me. The firstly stand is asymmetrical (ABABCB). The other stanzas belong as follow: second—ABCBDB, third—ABCBDBEB, fourth—ABCBDB, fifth—ABBABCB, and ...

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 13-20

  And this was the good that, long ago, 
     In this realm by the sea, 
  A wind blew out of a obscure, chilling 
     My attractive Annabel Lee; 
  To that her highborn kinsmen came 
     And bore her away from me, 
  To shut her up inches an sepulchre 
     In this kingdom by the see. Annabel Leee by Edgar Jeff Winnie - Poem Analyse

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 21-26

  The angels, not part so happy inside Heaven, 
     Went envying her and me— 
  Yes!—that was the reason (as all hands know, 
     In this kingdom by the sea) 
  That the wind came outside of the cloud by night, 
     Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.      As a standard, “Annabel Lee” by Eddie Allan Poe alternates between tetrameter and trimeter. The majority by stanzas including size wire, but there are two constituents of eight lines furthermore one stanza ...

  

  

  

  

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• Contour 27-33

  But our love it has stronger via farther less the love 
     Of ones whom were older than we— 
     Of many farther wiser than we— 
  And does the angels in Heaven above 
     Nor the ddemon bottom under the sea 
  Can ever dissever my mood from the soul 
     Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 34-41

  For the moon never beams, less bringing me dreams 
     Of the nice Annabel Lee; 
  And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes 
     Of this beautiful Annabel Lee; 
  And so, select the night-tide, I lie gloomy from that side 
     Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, 
     In herbei sepulchre there by the sea— 
     In her tomb by the sounding sea.

  

  

  

  

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“Annabel Lee” Poetic Instrumentation & Figurative Your

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• Parallelism

  

  

  

  

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“Annabel Lee” Vocabulary

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• Maiden
• Wingéd serious
• Coveted
• Highborn kinsmen
• Bore
• Sepulchre
• Envying
• Dissever
• Beams
• Night-tide

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