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Poem found here:  "Romance" by Edgar Allen Poe So on my version there's a stanza break -- ten line stanza and then an eleven line stanza.  I think, looking over my notes, the separation makes a difference between tone.  Romance, romance repeated twice -- this poem is definitely a definition of the term as it is anthropomorphized with, "who knows to nod and sing / With drowsy ahead and folded wing."  And, to me, the first thought to come to mind is that romance is angelic -- or at least appears that way.  This is important to note as the poem goes down the pastoral with, "Among the green leaves as they shake / Far down within some shadowy lake."  And, yes, "shadowy" might be a little too foreboding but hey there is, "To me a painted paroquet / Hat been-a most familiar bird" So there's the tie in with the winged creature -- angelic but then actualized into the form of a paroquet (parakeet).  But note how the speaker introduces him...

Poem Found Here:  "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe A rhyming tercet followed by rhyming couplets -- the poem feels connected at first then goes off, trying to keep things together style wise.  Content wise, the poem seems so sure of itself and then the last half of the poem is full of rhetorical questions. How is the poem so sure of itself in the beginning?  Look at how it starts with a verb and exclamation, "Take this kiss upon the brow! / And, in parting from you now, / Thus much let me avow:"  Look at how the actions are precise and direct from the speaker to the subject.  There's conviction in these lines which decay as the confession continues, "You are not wrong who deem / That my days have been a dream;"  note the semi-colon here which ties in the acknowledgement of the dream with:      yet if hope has flown away      In a night, or in a day,      In a vision, or in none,      Is ...

Original poem reprinted online here:    "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe Originally read: Some Time Ago, More information about the Poet: Edgar Allan Poe On the very top right corner of my paper analysis, I write down the rhyme scheme and the form of the poem.  Even though Poe himself stated that the poem is in a ballad form, there are drops in rhyme schemes and meter.  But the poem isn't about the exact form -- rather, like the subject, the poem is an exercise in inexactness -- something is not right in this poem. In the first sestet the rhyme scheme is almost exact and the line that isn't is the difference of "thought" which plays with the memory talked about.  There is a set up as the speaker and the girl "Annabel Lee" in which the speaker places the subject as someone "lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me".  The construction here is a bit weird because the focus is on the subject and then the subject's pur...