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| Stanza 1 |
| Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more." |
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| KEY: bold: alliteration itallics: internal rhyme underlined: rhyme |
| The first stanza of The Raven is about the speaker being in his chamber. He hears a tap at his door, and thinks it is some visitor calling at his door at midnight. In this stanza, part of the setting is stated - we know the speaker is at his chamber, and we know that it is midnight. |
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