Annabel Lee Rhyme Scheme

In the mysterious, dark, and benevolent “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe the narrator conveys the main character in a loving sought after way. He does this by using multiple literary tools throughout the poem. Poe shows Annabel Lee in an affectionate way to show the audience that love never fades even after the death.

Poe uses a different rhyme scheme throughout the poem to add a sort of rise and fall for the audience to give them different feelings about the poem. Whether it's sympathism or sadness. He is able to do this by changing the pattern because in turn it changes the reader's emotions. In addition to the changing rhyming pattern in each of the poem's six stanzas, Poe repeats a lot of the same words. The effect of structuring a poem this way causes it to stay in the reader's mind, as well as to build meaning each time a certain word is repeated. One of the biggest rhymes in the poem is his love interests name, Annabel Lee, along with the location of the poem “by the sea”. Both the Kingdom and Annabel Lee's tomb are both described as being “by the sea. An additional repetition we see in the poem is that Poe sometimes couples repetition of consonant sounds with repetition of vowel sounds. One can see this for example in “many and many”(line 1), “love and be loved” (line 6), “and those who were older than we” (line

Throughout the poem Poe enhances the rhythm of the poem with the repetition of consonant sounds. For example, the repetition of the “l" sound and “w" sound in “But we loved with a love that was more than love” (lines 9-10) in the second stanza . The poem ends with a stanza that imposes just 12 and 9 syllable lines which allows Poe to use correct dactyl patterns. He pairs this with the rhyme in lines 1, 3 and 5 beams-dreams, rise-eyes, tide-side, the end-rhyme in lines 2, 4, 7 and 8 Lee, Lee, sea, sea, and the alliteration of the “s” sound in the final two lines sepulchre, seaside,