The Raven

*Prophecy-(raven was the bird of prophecy), mystery, evil, omens, and death.
*End rhyme-similar or identical sound at the end of lines: door, lore, before.
*Internal rhyme-rhymes within a line: words in the middle of a line that rhyme.
*Rhyme scheme-the basic pattern of the end rhymes:Stanzas-have some amount of lines and same rhyme scheme.
One night there was a man sitting in his chair about to fall asleep and out of nowhere there came a knock at his door. When he got up to go see who it was, there was no one there. He began to think it was the ghost of Lenore. Once this happens again he thinks it is the wind so he opens a shutter. It was the raven the whole time. He talks to the raven and asks if he is bringing death. The man asks God to give him relief from his memories of Lenore. He also begins to drink because he really wants her memories to get out of his head. The man accuses the raven of being the devil and evil. The raven's shadow is cast upon the floor next to the man and the raven comes and takes his soul.