Question

Why is Shadow capitilized in the last stanza?​

Answer 1

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Eldorado’ is written in regular stanzas of six lines each, rhymed aabccb. The same b rhyme is used in each of the four stanzas: ‘shadow’ and ‘Eldorado’. This gives these two key words the force of a refrain, like in a song, and like a number of Poe’s greatest poems, ‘Eldorado’ bears the influence of the ballad.

However, note that these two repeated words, ‘shadow’ and ‘Eldorado’, alter in significance each time they are repeated. That ‘shadow’, in particular, becomes gradually more sinister: in the first stanza it refers simply to the complement of ‘sunshine’, in the second it denotes a growing sense of unease, in the third it refers to the mysterious ghostly ‘shade’ which appears to the knight and speaks to him, and in the final stanza it becomes capitalised, as ‘Shadow’, where it resonates with deathly meaning. ‘Down the Valley of the Shadow’ summons the 23rd Psalm from the Bible:

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