Poe

The Raven Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is a fabulous poem that is looked at by numerous students each year. This poem is a dark poem that has a sad tone to it. A man is “nearly napping”(l. 3) in his chamber when he hears a knock on his door. Instantly he believes it possibly could be his dead wife, which somehow came back from the dead. However, when he opens the door he …

…and this poem. Not only is this poem very intriguing in its contents, but also it is quite unique in its structure. It is very rare that a poem has lines longer than ten syllables, but every line throughout this poem has more than ten syllables. Also this is a very lengthy poem; it is nearly 110 lines long. Very few poets are talented enough to carry a rhyme scheme for that long of a poem.