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Where the narrator and Annabel Lee lived.
What is a kingdom by the sea?
The rhyming pattern at the end of lines, prominent in Poe's work.
What is rhyme scheme?
The author of "Annabel Lee".
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This repeating body of water symbolizes both life and the vast, cold separation of death.
What is the sea?
"It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom _______."
What is "by the sea"?
The age of the speaker and Annabel Lee when they were in love.
What is a child (or childhood)?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds, as in "the beautiful Annabel Lee."
What is alliteration?
The century in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote and published his works (published posthumously in 1849).
What is the 19th century (or 1800s)?
This nighttime cosmic object brings the speaker vivid dreams of his lost love.
What is the moon?
"With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven / Coveted her _______."
What is "and me"?
Who the speaker blames for being envious of their love.
Who are the angels in heaven (and demons down under the sea)?
A burial vault or tomb mentioned in the poem.
What is a sepulcher?
The suspected real-life inspiration and wife of Poe whom many believe the poem memorializes.
Who is Virginia Clemm?
This powerful emotion is the central theme of the poem, outlasting both youth and death.
What is love?
"But our love it was stronger by far than the love / Of those who were _______ than we."
What is "older"?
The physical force from the cloud that caused Annabel Lee to catch a chill and die.
What is a wind?
To separate or sever, which neither angels nor demons can do to the speaker's soul.
What is dissever?
Poe's famous poem about a talking bird that endlessly repeats "Nevermore."
What is "The Raven"?
These bright, celestial objects remind the speaker of Annabel Lee's beautiful eyes.
What are the stars?
"And neither the angels in Heaven above / Nor the demons down under the sea / Can ever _______ my soul from the soul..."
What is "dissever"?
Where the speaker spends every night lying down next to his lost love.
What is her sepulcher (or tomb) by the sea?
The overall feeling or emotional atmosphere created by the poem's melancholic rhythm.
What is mood (or tone)?
The subgenre of dark, mysterious literature that Poe helped pioneer.
What is Gothic Fiction?
The poem explores this intense emotional state of mourning following a profound loss.
What is grief (or bereavement)?
"In her tomb by the sounding sea." is preceded by this line: "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side / Of my darling—my darling—my life _______."
What is "and my bride"?