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"" uses many different types of literary devices. The first device is genre. In tone,
, and subject matter, "Annabel Lee" references the traditional genre of the ballad,
evoking the sentiments and historical associations of folk tales and songs.
As a poem, "Annabel Lee" uses the literary devices of rhyme and meter. As is
true with many ballads, Poe's poem mixes iambic and anapestic feet to give it a lilting, musical
quality. Poe also uses rhyme in this poem and repeated words at the ends of lines. There are
four words used multiple times at the end of lines in this poem: me, we, sea, and Lee. Two other
frequent rhyme words are "love" and "know." This degree of repetition adds a
hypnotic quality to the poem. There are also internal rhymes within lines such as "chilling
and killing" and "rise ... eyes".
Another frequent literary
device used in this poem is comparison, especially in the form of , as seen in the
lines:
The angels, not half so happy...
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