The Raven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBB DBEBBB FBCBBB DBCBBB CCBFBBB CBGBBB DBABBB CBEFBBB ABCBBB ABHBBB FBDBB CIBCBBB CBCDDB DBJABBB KBLBBB KBFBBB MCBFBBB CBCBBB| Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary | A |
| Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore | B |
| While I nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping | C |
| As of some one gently rapping rapping at my chamber door | B |
| 'Tis some visitor I muttered tapping at my chamber door | B |
| Only this and nothing more | B |
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| Ah distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December | D |
| And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor | B |
| Eagerly I wished the morrow vainly I had sought to borrow | E |
| From my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost Lenore | B |
| For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore | B |
| Nameless here for evermore | B |
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| And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain | F |
| Thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before | B |
| So that now to still the beating of my heart I stood repeating | C |
| 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door | B |
| Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door | B |
| This it is and nothing more | B |
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| Presently my soul grew stronger hesitating then no longer | D |
| Sir said I or Madam truly your forgiveness I implore | B |
| But the fact is I was napping and so gently you came rapping | C |
| And so faintly you came tapping tapping at my chamber door | B |
| That I scarce was sure I heard you here I opened wide the door | B |
| Darkness there and nothing more | B |
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| Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering | C |
| fearing | C |
| Doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before | B |
| But the silence was unbroken and the darkness gave no token | F |
| And the only word there spoken was the whispered word Lenore | B |
| This I whispered and an echo murmured back the word Lenore | B |
| Merely this and nothing more | B |
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| Back into the chamber turning all my soul within me burning | C |
| Soon I heard again a tapping somewhat louder than before | B |
| Surely said I surely that is something at my window lattice | G |
| Let me see then what thereat is and this mystery explore | B |
| Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore | B |
| 'Tis the wind and nothing more | B |
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| Open here I flung the shutter when with many a flirt and flutter | D |
| In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore | B |
| Not the least obeisance made he not an instant stopped or stayed he | A |
| But with mien of lord or lady perched above my chamber door | B |
| Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door | B |
| Perched and sat and nothing more | B |
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| Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling | C |
| By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore | B |
| Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou I said art sure no | E |
| craven | F |
| Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore | B |
| Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore | B |
| Quoth the Raven Nevermore | B |
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| Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly | A |
| Though its answer little meaning little relevancy bore | B |
| For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being | C |
| Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door | B |
| Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door | B |
| With such name as Nevermore | B |
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| But the Raven sitting lonely on that placid bust spoke only | A |
| That one word as if his soul in that one word he did outpour | B |
| Nothing further then he uttered not a feather then he fluttered | H |
| Till I scarcely more than muttered Other friends have flown before | B |
| On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before | B |
| Then the bird said Nevermore | B |
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| Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken | F |
| Doubtless said I what it utters is its only stock and store | B |
| Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster | D |
| Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore | B |
| Till the dirges of his Hope the melancholy burden bore | B |
| Of 'Never nevermore ' | - |
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| But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling | C |
| Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and | I |
| door | B |
| Then upon the velvet sinking I betook myself to linking | C |
| Fancy unto fancy thinking what this ominous bird of yore | B |
| What this grim ungainly ghastly gaunt and ominous bird of yore | B |
| Meant in croaking Nevermore | B |
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| This I sat engaged in guessing but no syllable expressing | C |
| To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core | B |
| This and more I sat divining with my head at ease reclining | C |
| On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp light gloated o'er | D |
| But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp light gloating o'er | D |
| She shall press ah nevermore | B |
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| Then methought the air grew denser perfumed from an unseen censer | D |
| Swung by Seraphim whose foot falls tinkled on the tufted floor | B |
| Wretch I cried thy God hath lent thee by these angels he hath | J |
| sent thee | A |
| Respite respite aad nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore | B |
| Quaff oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore | B |
| Quoth the Raven Nevermore | B |
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| Prophet said I thing of evil prophet still if bird or devil | K |
| Whether Tempter sent or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore | B |
| Desolate yet all undaunted on this desert land enchanted | L |
| On this home by Horror haunted tell me truly I implore | B |
| Is there is there balm in Gilead tell me tell me I implore | B |
| Quoth the Raven Nevermore | B |
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| Prophet said I thing of evil prophet still if bird or devil | K |
| By that Heaven that bends above us by that God we both adore | B |
| Tell this soul with sorrow laden if within the distant Aidenn | F |
| It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore | B |
| Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore | B |
| Quoth the Raven Nevermore | B |
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| Be that word our sign of parting bird or fiend I shrieked | M |
| upstarting | C |
| Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore | B |
| Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken | F |
| Leave my loneliness unbroken quit the bust above my door | B |
| Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door | B |
| Quoth the Raven Nevermore | B |
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| And the Raven never flitting still is sitting still is sitting | C |
| On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door | B |
| And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming | C |
| And the lamp light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor | B |
| And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor | B |
| Shall be lifted nevermore | B |
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