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| Stanza 17 |
| "Be that word our sign of parting, bird or friend!" I shrieked, upstarting - "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." |
| Key: bold: alliteration itallics: internal rhyme underlined: rhyme |
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| Description |
| "Get thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door." Here the speaker is reapresenting his true love for Lenore because one when the Raven said that Lenore didn't exist in Heaven anymore, the speaker became furious with the bird. He wants the bird to get out of his house without leaving any trace of his existence, just like a smooth criminal. |