The Raven Cover Image

Analysis Pages

Ingemination in The Raven

Poe creates a strong internal rhyme through the utilize of alliteration, or repetition of sounds. Throughout the poem, Poe repeats the consonant "s" sounds and deep vowel "or" sounds to create a sonorous effect.

Alliteration Examples in The Raven:

The Raven

🔒 3

"silken lamentable uncertain rustling..." See in text(The Raven)

"Silken sad uncertain rustling" is a blazon of alliteration called susurration. Susurration is soft repetition of the s sound. Information technology creates an eerie sense of whispering, hissing, or swishing. Just while eerie, it tin can also have a calming or lulling effect. This line simultaneously shows the narrator'south discomfort at this uncanny experience and paints the image of a all the same, silent room.

Subscribe to unlock »

"unseen censer Swung past Seraphim..." Run into in text(The Raven)

Discover Poe's use of subtle alliteration of s sounds in these two lines. Subsequently sounds in "denser...unseen censer," the reader might wait that to be all. But since Poe is describing a swinging censer containing burning incense, it is pleasantly surprising when the weighty (literary) device seems to swing back at the beginning of the next line with, "Swung by seraphim," two more than alliterative s sounds.

Subscribe to unlock »

"weak and weary..." Run into in text(The Raven)

This is the commencement example of Poe's frequent use of alliteration, the repetition of initial sounds, and internal rhyme. Detect how Poe uses internal rhyme throughout the beginning and third lines of each stanza, and peculiarly how repetition represents an essential technique and theme in the poem.

Subscribe to unlock »

Analysis Pages