Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allen Poe
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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I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
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And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
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The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud one night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
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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;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie 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 side of the sea.
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1. Record the rhyme scheme.
2. In each stanza mark & clearly label at
least 1 example of each of the following :
o Alliteration (AL)
o Assonance (AS)
o Consonance (CO)
o Internal rhyme (IR)
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Who is the poet? ______________________________________________________
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What kind of poem is this? Lyric or Narrative?__________________________________
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From what point of view is the poem told?
a. 1st person
b. 3rd person omniscient
c. 3rd person limited
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What is the setting? _____________________________________________________
5.
Quote the lines in which the poet informs the reader that Annabel died?
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According to the narrator, what is the real reason that Annabel died? Paraphrase your answer and
then cite the lines from the poem which provide this information.
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In the 4th Stanza the words “chilling” and “killing” an example of which poetic device?
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8.
What is the synonym for “angels” that is used in the poem and in what line is it found?
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What is the synonym for tomb or grave that is used in the poem? In what line or lines is it found?
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10. Paraphrase what the narrator is doing every night to keep close to Annabel Lee? Support your claim
by quoting the lines (and then citing them) that prove it.
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