For Annie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEFEGE GHIHJH CCKCGC LMIMCM NOGOIOIO POQORO IOJOOOIO OPIPPP JPIPIPGP JJSJTJ JOJOUO OVPWPW JOXOJOOOJO IJYJOJOJ

Thank Heaven the crisisA
The danger is pastB
And the lingering illnessA
Is over at lastB
And the fever called LivingC
Is conquered at lastB
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Sadly I knowD
I am shorn of my strengthE
And no muscle I moveF
As I lie at full lengthE
But no matter I feelG
I am better at lengthE
-
And I rest so composedlyG
Now in my bedH
That any beholderI
Might fancy me deadH
Might start at beholding meJ
Thinking me deadH
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The moaning and groaningC
The sighing and sobbingC
Are quieted nowK
With that horrible throbbingC
At heart ah that horribleG
Horrible throbbingC
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The sickness the nauseaL
The pitiless painM
Have ceased with the feverI
That maddened my brainM
With the fever called LivingC
That burned in my brainM
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And oh of all torturesN
That torture the worstO
Has abated the terribleG
Torture of thirstO
For the naphthaline riverI
Of Passion accurstO
I have drank of a waterI
That quenches all thirstO
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Of a water that flowsP
With a lullaby soundO
From a spring but a very fewQ
Feet under groundO
From a cavern not very farR
Down under groundO
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And ah let it neverI
Be foolishly saidO
That my room it is gloomyJ
And narrow my bedO
For man never sleptO
In a different bedO
And to sleep you must slumberI
In just such a bedO
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My tantalized spiritO
Here blandly reposesP
Forgetting or neverI
Regretting its rosesP
Its old agitationsP
Of myrtles and rosesP
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For now while so quietlyJ
Lying it fanciesP
A holier odorI
About it of pansiesP
A rosemary odorI
Commingled with pansiesP
With rue and the beautifulG
Puritan pansiesP
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And so it lies happilyJ
Bathing in manyJ
A dream of the truthS
And the beauty of AnnieJ
Drowned in a bathT
Of the tresses of AnnieJ
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She tenderly kissed meJ
She fondly caressedO
And then I fell gentlyJ
To sleep on her breastO
Deeply to sleepU
From the heaven of her breastO
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When the light was extinguishedO
She covered me warmV
And she prayed to the angelsP
To keep me from harmW
To the queen of the angelsP
To shield me from harmW
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And I lie so composedlyJ
Now in my bedO
Knowing her loveX
That you fancy me deadO
And I rest so contentedlyJ
Now in my bedO
With her love at my breastO
That you fancy me deadO
That you shudder to look at meJ
Thinking me deadO
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But my heart it is brighterI
Than all of the manyJ
Stars in the skyY
For it sparkles with AnnieJ
It glows with the lightO
Of the love of my AnnieJ
With the thought of the lightO
Of the eyes of my AnnieJ

Edgar Allan Poe



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