Serenade by Edgar Allan Poe
Analysis
"Serenade" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. This writing is about the beauty of untouched nature an an unnamed lover. It was first published in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. It was never published in any of his anthologies during his lifetime.
This poem is written as a single stanza with twenty-five lines. It is rhyme in couplets, except the lines ending with "brown", "crown", and "down", in which case it is a triplet rhyme.
Poem
Serenade So sweet the hour, so calm the time, I feel it more than half a crime, When Nature sleeps and stars are mute, To mar the silence ev'n with lute. At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes An image of Elysium lies: Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven, Form in the deep another seven: Endymion nodding from above Sees in the sea a second love. Within the valleys dim and brown, And on the spectral mountain's crown, The wearied light is dying down, And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky Are redolent of sleep, as I Am redolent of thee and thine Enthralling love, my Adeline. But list, O list,- so soft and low Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow, That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem My words the music of a dream. Thus, while no single sound too rude Upon thy slumber shall intrude, Our thoughts, our souls- O God above! In every deed shall mingle, love. Written in 1850.
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Nationality
American
Literary Movement
Romanticism, 19th Century
Subjects
Beauty, Nature, Love, God, Relationship
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Nationality
American
Literary Movement
Romanticism, 19th Century
Subjects
Beauty, Nature, Love, God, Relationship