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| Stanza 11 |
| Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore- Till the dirges of his of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never- nevermore.'" |
| Key: bold: alliteration itallics: internal rhyme underlined: rhyme |
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| Description |
| In stanza 11, the speaer requests that the bird is only saying "Nevermore", because those are the only syllables, and the only word that the Raven knows how to say; but the speaker also knows that the creature does not know how to use the word in any reasonabe sense. Annoyed is what the speaker is getting, because to him this monster's repititious word is the only thing uglier, besides death, than the bird |