Diagramming Poe 3

[Frank Antonson]

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.

 

[Frank Antonson]

The most interesting thing about this sentence for me is "me". It is obviously the object of the preposition " by", but is it also a sort of suspended direct object for " love"?

 

[Frank Antonson]

 

[Frank Antonson]

Corum better review that one. It was way harder than I thought it would be.

 

[Frank Antonson]

I see I forgot the last "and", but that part is easy.

 

[corum]

no understood me in [love me and loved by me]
otherwise :up:

 

[Frank Antonson]

I accept both adjustments.

The understood "me" is just a possible nice touch. This is, after all poetry.
I suppose it would be punctuated differently i.e. "...to love, and be loved by, me."

 

[Frank Antonson]

Incidentally, it has occurred to me that a diagrammer should feel no compunction about treating independent clauses as sentences in themselves since they normally add no complexity to the diagram -- just length.