Lenore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDCCC EEDDFFF FFGGHHH| Ah broken is the golden bowl the spirit flown forever | A |
| Let the bell toll a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river | A |
| And Guy de Vere hast thou no tear weep now or never more | B |
| See on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love Lenore | B |
| Come let the burial rite be read the funeral song be sung | C |
| An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young | C |
| A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young | C |
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| Wretches ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride | D |
| And when she fell in feeble health ye blessed her that she died | D |
| How shall the ritual then be read the requiem how be sung | C |
| By you by yours the evil eye by yours the slanderous tongue | C |
| That did to death the innocence that died and died so young | C |
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| Peccavimus but rave not thus and let a Sabbath song | E |
| Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong | E |
| The sweet Lenore hath gone before with Hope that flew beside | D |
| Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride | D |
| For her the fair and debonnaire that now so lowly lies | F |
| The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes | F |
| The life still there upon her hair the death upon her eyes | F |
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| Avaunt to night my heart is light No dirge will I upraise | F |
| But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days | F |
| Let no bell toll lest her sweet soul amid its hallowed mirth | G |
| Should catch the note as it doth float up from the damned Earth | G |
| To friends above from fiends below the indignant ghost is riven | H |
| From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven | H |
| From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven | H |
Edgar Allan Poe
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