'To one in Paradise' (Joanna)

Joanna writes:

In the poem, “To One In Paradise” the structure and rhyme scheme seems to be essential to the poem. The poem is basically about a love that is over, and Poe is able to create a sense of anguish in the reader. He builds up a longing and morose feeling and finally at the end he writes:

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams,
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.

The four repeating “And”‘s really emphasize the speaker’s life of drudgery without his lover. The repetition gives the reader a sense of no way out, and that the pattern (of life without love) will continue endlessly. The feelings evoked by the words and the way the words are placed help give the poem life.

[The repetition of the initial "and" is certainly striking here. See if you feel, after reading Whitman, that this rhetorical device always or inevitably leads one to "a sense of no way out."

[The 6 lines here are beautifully paired in twos, rhyming ABABAB, in this metrical symmetry:
and ALL my DAYS are TRAN-ces
and ALL my NIGHTly DREAMS
are WHERE thy DARK eye GLAN-ces
and WHERE thy FOOTstep GLEAMS,
in WHAT ethERyal DAN-ces
by WHAT eTERnal STREAMS.

Unvaried iambic tetrameter/ trimeter alternating, but with the tetrameter (4-foot) lines having an unvoiced syllable ("-ces"), as in a thought falling off. Don't you get a sense of closure as that neat pattern ends? And at the same time, there's a haunting question out there--by what eternal streams? Where DOES love go??