It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

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

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

Annabel Lee

Analysis

In this poem the title could mean that the poem is about a particular girl, or it's about a doll. The poem could also mean sadness, or loss of a lover. There are 21 lines, and 6 stanzas all about Annabel Lee.

There was, once again, some words that I didn't know, but now I do know what they mean. Now that I know them the poem makes sense.

The narrator keeps on talking about how the angels in heaven were jealous that Annabel Lee had the heart of the narrator.

For symbolism kingdom is the cruelty of the world, the sea huge, unknown, and loneliness.