What sort of feeling does the author create at the beginning of "Annabel Lee," and does it change?

As
the events of the poem unfold, there are three distinct moods created through the
details.

The mood at the beginning of "" is mystical. The speaker
begins with "It was many and many a year ago," which is reminiscent of a fairy tale
beginning "Once upon a time, long long ago." The speaker then tells of a
"maiden" whose only thought is to love him and be loved by him. It sounds very much
like a fairy tale full of loving tales that end "happily ever after," and this feeling
flows into the next stanza with descriptions of an unearthly love that is so strong that
"winged seraphs" envy the couple.

The third stanza begins a mood
shift to one of despair. Suddenly, Annabel Lee is killed by a darkness and the speaker is left
alone as her "highborn kinsman" take her away. Thus, Annabel Lee leaves him both
spiritually and physically.

Before the poem ends, the mood shifts once again
to reflect the eerie attachment that the speaker holds for Annabel Lee, even in death. He feels
that their souls are forever bound together and cannot be separated; therefore, he lies by her
sepulcher night after night, listening to the same sea that stands by their "kingdom"
in the first stanza.

There is no happy ending, and this is no fairy tale.
Instead, the couple faces a darkness which causes the death of Annabel Lee and forever changes
the speaker into a man forever tortured by dreams of the love he had and
lost.