Sonnet Analysis Part 1

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

• This part of the sonnet describes how Poe was very lonely and different as a child. He didn't blend in with everyone, and because of that, he was sad and alone.

Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:

• The sonnet is saying how Poe's childhood was only the beginning to all the sorrow that followed. The "mystery" Poe talks about is the question he has to life about why his life is so terrible.

From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view. 

• All the lines before the last show that everywhere else is perfect, and things are going through its natural course of life. 
• The last line tells about how Poe's life is so bad even though everywhere else seems to be fine.