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  2. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Analysis subsection. 2.1 Allusions. ... The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. ... In every stanza, the "B" lines rhyme with the ...

  3. The Philosophy of Composition - Wikipedia

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    The raven itself, Poe says, is meant to become symbolic by the end of the poem. As he wrote, "The reader begins now to regard the Raven as emblematical—but it is not until the very last line of the very last stanza, that the intention of making him emblematical of Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance is permitted directly to be seen."

  4. Allusions to Poe's "The Raven" - Wikipedia

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    In the Donald Duck 10-pager "Raven Mad" by Carl Barks, published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #265 in 1962, Huey, Dewey and Louie play with a raven who can only say "Nevermore." As in the poem, the raven often repeats the word throughout the story. Sections of "The Raven" are quoted in Hubert Selby Jr's 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn ...

  5. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    The title "Stanzas" was assigned to this untitled poem originally printed in Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827. Another poem with the title "Stanzas" was published in the Graham's Magazine in December 1845 and signed "P." It was attributed to Poe based on a copy owned by Frances Osgood, on which she had pencilled notes.

  6. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A quatrain is any four-line stanza or poem. There are 15 possible rhyme sequences for a four-line poem; common rhyme schemes for these include AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, and ABCB. [citation needed] "The Raven" stanza: ABCBBB, or AA,B,CC,CB,B,B when accounting for internal rhyme, as used by Edgar Allan Poe in his poem "The Raven" Rhyme royal: ABABBCC

  7. Lenore (poem) - Wikipedia

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    A character by the name of Lenore, thought to be a deceased wife, is central to Poe's poem "The Raven" (1845).Roman Dirge created a comic book series in 1998 inspired by the poem, involving the comedic misadventures of Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl.

  8. The Blessed Damozel - Wikipedia

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    The poem was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven", [2] ... The first four stanzas of the poem are inscribed on the frame of the painting:

  9. Trochaic octameter - Wikipedia

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    The following first verse from "The Raven" shows the use of trochaic octameter. Note the heavy use of dactyls in the second and fifth line, which help to emphasize the more regular lines, and the use of strong accents to end the second, fourth and fifth lines, reinforcing the rhyme: We can notate the scansion of this as follows: /