Annabel Lee 1849 Sound devices, exercises

ALUNO: CARLOS GUSTAVO CAMILLO PEREIRA

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea, Alliteration: a kind of initial
rhyme, a pattern of sound
That a maiden there lived whom you may know repetition of initial consonants.
By the name of ANNABEL LEE; Algernon Charles Swinburne:
And this maiden she lived with no other thought For winter's rains and ruins are
Than to love and be loved by me. over,
And all the season of snows and
Assonance, a repetition of similar
sins,'
I was a child and she was a child, vowel sounds, a kind of imperfect
rhyme, as we find in "dwell" and
In this kingdom by the sea:
"tread", "bird" and "thirst"
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my ANNABEL LEE;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Anaphora: The intentional
repetition of a word or words at
Coveted her and me. the beginning of two or more
And this was the reason that, long ago, successive verses, clauses or
sentences in order to create an
In this kingdom by the sea, artistic effect. For instance,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling Churchill declared:
My beautiful ANNABEL LEE; "We shall not flag or fail/ We
So that her highborn kinsmen came shall go on the end. /We shall
And bore her away from me, fight in France. /We shall fight
To shut her up in a sepulcher on the seas and oceans./ We
shall fight with growing
In this kingdom by the sea. confidence and growing
The angels, not half so happy in heaven, strength in the air./ We shall
defend our island, whatever the
Went envying her and me- cost shall be."
Yes! That was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
Onomatopoeia is the technique
That the wind came out of the cloud one night, of using words whose sound
Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE. suggests its meaning, like buzz,
cuckoo, hum etc.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we- Exercises
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea, Color the following tropes as
requested:
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE. 1. Alliteration in green;
2. Assonance in red;
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams 3. Anaphora in blue;
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; 4. End rhymes in purple;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes 5. Internal rhyme in orange.
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulcher there by the sea-
In her tomb by the side of the sea