Tuesday, April 23, 2013

What literary elements are used in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee"?

The first
major literary element used in Poe's poem "" is genre. The poem is written in the form
that uses many of the conventions of the traditional ballad, including simple language,
narrative content, frequent repetition, and a setting in a distant, romanticized past, removed
from everyday life, as we see in the opening:

It was many
and many a year ago,  

In a kingdom by the sea ...


The next major literary element found in the poem is stanzaic form.
The poem is divided into six stanzas, ranging from six to eight lines in length. Rather than
have a completely regular pattern of rhyme, Poe repeats a small group of rhyming words at the
ends of three or four lines in each stanza. These words are: Lee, we, sea,
and me. The meter of the poem is a mixture of iambs and
anapests. 

The next major literary element is a combination  ofand , in which
religiousis evoked by the use of images of seraphs, angels, demons, and Heaven in the
description of their relationship.

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