Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Annabel Lee Form: "Annabel Lee" is a lyric poem of six stanzas. The stanzas consist of 6, 6, 8, 6, 7, and 8 lines respectively. The stanzas, then, follow no general rule, although they stay closest to the pattern of the first, second, and fourth stanzas. The poem is written in lines alternating between iambic tetrameter, or lines of four accents beginning with an unaccented syllable, and iambic trimeter, or lines of three accents beginning with an unaccented syllable. In the fifth stanza the second and third lines are both trimeter and do not alternate. In the last sta...
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