Annabel Lee

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Annabel Lee

• By Edgar Allen Poe

Created by Allison Turner and Josie Smith
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Annabel Lee

• Thesis
• This poem should be kept because it shows how
  Poe maintains the perpetual occurrence of death
  themes throughout many of his literary works and
  the use of literary devices.
• Publication
• October 9,1849
• -- Two days after Poes death.

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Rhyme Scheme

• It was many and many a year ago
• In a kingdom by the sea,
• That a maiden there lived whom you may know
• By the name of Annabel Lee
• And this maiden she lived with no other thought
• Than to love and be loved by me.

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There is no set rhyme scheme.
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Rhythm
There is no set rhythm pattern throughout the poem. But its mostly anapestic tetrameter and trimeter.

• For the moon never beams without bringing me
• dreams
• Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
• And the stars never rise but I feel the bright
  eyes
• Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

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Motif For the moon never beams without bringing
me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And stars
never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the
beautiful Annabel Lee.
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Repetition
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride.
The repeated use of my represents possession towards Annabel.
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Alliteration

• That a maiden there lived whom you may know
• Nor the demons down under the sea
• Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

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Assonance

• And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the
  side.
• Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride.
• And the stars never rise but I feel the bright
  eyes.

These are two examples that show the repetition of the long I sound
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Personification

• That the wind came out of the cloud by night.
• Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

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Imagery

• And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the
  side
• Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride
• In the sepulchre there by the sea
• In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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• Overall, this poem should be kept in the Glencoe
  10th grade Literature book because high school
  students should be exposed to the following
  literary devices
• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Motif
• Personification
• Repetition