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29 Sep 2021

     The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door -

6- Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had.....

 

some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -

18- This it is, and nothing more,'

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

'Sir,' said I, 'or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I 

chamber door -

42- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

 

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'

48- Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'

 

In addition to the rhyme at the end of the lines in "The Raven," Poe uses rhyme within the lines, such as "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."

Another example of this "internal rhyme" is which of the following lines?

A. Line 18

B. Line 6

C. Line 43