My Poor, Poor Poe by richard lynn livesay
The Chant Royal is a poetic form that consists of five eleven-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E. thanks for the inspiration Sarah and Susan
orphaned young was little Poe,
his Mother dead, his Father gone
the wealthy Allen’s adopted him
Edgar was wild and didn’t belong
first expelled from Virginia U,
army, West Point; life was grim
disinherited, ousted and all alone
he began writing; got in a zone
writing “Tamerlane poems”, he grew
at twenty-four, married cousin foreknown
poor Poe struggled, his genius askew
“I was a child, she was a child,
in this kingdom by the sea”
but it was more than love —
“I and my ANNABEL LEE —“
In 1845 “The Raven”, a jewel
Two years later, his little dove,
Virginia; death also took her home
so, I…
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