For Annie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEFEGE GHIHJH CCKCGC LMIMCM NOGOIOIO POQORO IOJOOOIO OPIPPP JPIPIPGP JJSJTJ JOJOUO OVPWPW JOXOJOOOJO IJYJOJOJThank Heaven the crisis | A |
The danger is past | B |
And the lingering illness | A |
Is over at last | B |
And the fever called Living | C |
Is conquered at last | B |
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Sadly I know | D |
I am shorn of my strength | E |
And no muscle I move | F |
As I lie at full length | E |
But no matter I feel | G |
I am better at length | E |
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And I rest so composedly | G |
Now in my bed | H |
That any beholder | I |
Might fancy me dead | H |
Might start at beholding me | J |
Thinking me dead | H |
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The moaning and groaning | C |
The sighing and sobbing | C |
Are quieted now | K |
With that horrible throbbing | C |
At heart ah that horrible | G |
Horrible throbbing | C |
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The sickness the nausea | L |
The pitiless pain | M |
Have ceased with the fever | I |
That maddened my brain | M |
With the fever called Living | C |
That burned in my brain | M |
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And oh of all tortures | N |
That torture the worst | O |
Has abated the terrible | G |
Torture of thirst | O |
For the naphthaline river | I |
Of Passion accurst | O |
I have drank of a water | I |
That quenches all thirst | O |
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Of a water that flows | P |
With a lullaby sound | O |
From a spring but a very few | Q |
Feet under ground | O |
From a cavern not very far | R |
Down under ground | O |
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And ah let it never | I |
Be foolishly said | O |
That my room it is gloomy | J |
And narrow my bed | O |
For man never slept | O |
In a different bed | O |
And to sleep you must slumber | I |
In just such a bed | O |
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My tantalized spirit | O |
Here blandly reposes | P |
Forgetting or never | I |
Regretting its roses | P |
Its old agitations | P |
Of myrtles and roses | P |
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For now while so quietly | J |
Lying it fancies | P |
A holier odor | I |
About it of pansies | P |
A rosemary odor | I |
Commingled with pansies | P |
With rue and the beautiful | G |
Puritan pansies | P |
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And so it lies happily | J |
Bathing in many | J |
A dream of the truth | S |
And the beauty of Annie | J |
Drowned in a bath | T |
Of the tresses of Annie | J |
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She tenderly kissed me | J |
She fondly caressed | O |
And then I fell gently | J |
To sleep on her breast | O |
Deeply to sleep | U |
From the heaven of her breast | O |
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When the light was extinguished | O |
She covered me warm | V |
And she prayed to the angels | P |
To keep me from harm | W |
To the queen of the angels | P |
To shield me from harm | W |
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And I lie so composedly | J |
Now in my bed | O |
Knowing her love | X |
That you fancy me dead | O |
And I rest so contentedly | J |
Now in my bed | O |
With her love at my breast | O |
That you fancy me dead | O |
That you shudder to look at me | J |
Thinking me dead | O |
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But my heart it is brighter | I |
Than all of the many | J |
Stars in the sky | Y |
For it sparkles with Annie | J |
It glows with the light | O |
Of the love of my Annie | J |
With the thought of the light | O |
Of the eyes of my Annie | J |
Edgar Allan Poe
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