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  2. Annabel Lee - Wikipedia

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    "Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem [1] composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. [ 2 ] The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious.

  3. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    The last complete poem written by Poe, it was published shortly after his death in 1849. The speaker of the poem talks about a lost love, Annabel Lee, and may have been based on Poe's own relationship with his wife Virginia, though that is disputed.

  4. Ulalume - Wikipedia

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    The first page of Ulalume, as the poem first appeared in the American Review in 1847 "Ulalume" (/ ˈ uː l ə l uː m /) is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death.

  5. The City in the Sea - Wikipedia

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    Publication with "Annabel Lee" in The Poets and Poetry of America, Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1850. "The City in the Sea" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.The final version was published in 1845, but an earlier version was published as "The Doomed City" in 1831 and, later, as "The City of Sin".

  6. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Examples: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. Epic (or epos): an extended narrative poem, typically expressing heroic themes. Mock-epic: a poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically.

  7. Alliteration - Wikipedia

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    For example, S sounds can imply danger or make the audience feel as if they are being deceived. [37] Other sounds can likewise generate positive or negative responses. [38] Alliteration serves to "intensify any attitude being signified". [39]: 6–7 An example is in John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, in which he uses alliteration 21 times.

  8. Literary consonance - Wikipedia

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    An example is the verse from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain." (This example also contains assonance around the "ur" sound.) Another example of consonance is the word "sibilance" itself. Consonance is an element of half-rhyme poetic format, sometimes called "slant rhyme".

  9. Heptameter - Wikipedia

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    An example from Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee: 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. An example from Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee: