The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

That I scarce was sure I heard you”-here I opened wide the door -ĭeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,ĭoubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before īut the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,Īnd the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” “Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore īut the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,Īnd so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, Presently my soul grew stronger hesitating then no longer, Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before Get ready for Edgar Allan Poe’s skillful use of the rhetorical device known as alliteration you hear it in the repeated initial S sounds in the next line.Īnd the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-Īh, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December Īnd each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Įagerly I wished the morrow -vainly I had sought to borrowįrom my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore-įor the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,Īs of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Enjoy the spooky pleasures of the complete poem – all 18 stanzas – then check out the vocabulary and video.

The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe