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2 Oct 2021

84- Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'

 

'Prophet' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devill -

Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,

Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -

On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -

Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implorel'

90- Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore.'

 

- Prophet' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!

By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'

96- Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore.'

 

'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! I shrieked upstarting -

'Get thee back into the tempest and the Nights Plutonian shore!

 

In addition to the rhyme at the end of the lines in his poem, "The Raven," Poe uses rhyme within the lines, such as "Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow."

Another example of this "internal rhyme" is

A. Line 89

B. Line 85

C. Line 98