URGENT PLEASE HELP!! what kind of poem is this, due tommarow???

i have a essay due tommarow and i can't figure out what kind of poem the city in the sea by edgar allen poe is here is the poem.


Lo! Death has reared himself a throne








In a strange city lying alone


Far down within the dim West,


Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best


Have gone to their eternal rest.


There shrines and palaces and towers


(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)


Resemble nothing that is ours.


Around, by lifting winds forgot,


Resignedly beneath the sky


The melancholy waters lie.








No rays from the holy heaven come down


On the long night-time of that town;


But light from out the lurid sea


Streams up the turrets silently —


Gleams up the pinnacles far and free —


Up domes — up spires — up kingly halls —


Up fanes — up Babylon-like walls —


Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers


Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers —


Up many and many a marvelous shrine


Whose wreathéd friezes intertwine


The viol, the violet, and the vine.


So blend the turrets and

URGENT PLEASE HELP!! what kind of poem is this, due tommarow???
looks like a sonnet to me. Sonnets have 14 lines and a rhyme scheme and are in iambic pentameter.
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