also it is notable that many phrases and imagery sets in the original storey are preserved in this song.
however in the short storey and this song there are facts which acey omits. firstly ligea dies of a preculioar malady; rowenna is brought to the point of death by the same disease. The speaker takes a lot of opium and so is worried he is hallucinating; he can't believe his senses- 'could a corpse cold, stiff, sedate, sob in the bed it lie?' but rowenas body metamorphiises into that of ligea before becoming reanimate.
also it is notable that many phrases and imagery sets in the original storey are preserved in this song.
however in the short storey and this song there are facts which acey omits. firstly ligea dies of a preculioar malady; rowenna is brought to the point of death by the same disease. The speaker takes a lot of opium and so is worried he is hallucinating; he can't believe his senses- 'could a corpse cold, stiff, sedate, sob in the bed it lie?' but rowenas body metamorphiises into that of ligea before becoming reanimate.