We think that works really well with the slightly crazy subject. This poem is filled with all kinds of irregular moments and chaotic little changes in the meter.
You probably noticed right away that not all of these syllable groups make a perfect trochee like "silver." For example, the word "bells" hangs out by itself at the end of each line, with no unstressed syllable to follow it. Hear that? The first syllable is stressed. See how that works? A word like "silver" is a great example of a trochee: Sil-ver. Here, we'll show you how that works by dividing the syllable groups (poetry people call those "feet") with slashes, and by putting the stressed syllables in bold:
For the most part, Poe uses a kind of meter in this poem that we call "trochaic." That means that the poem is made up of pairs of syllables, with the first syllable in each pair being emphasized (stressed) and the second one not.
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