Alliteration and Rhym - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages The poem is full of alliteration and internal rhyme in the stanza because they mostly occur together depending on the composition of the piece of work. As illustrated in the poem the Raven a number of words have occurred in series for example in the first stanza…. “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.” The selected consonance are “weak” and weary” the first consonance sounds the same in the like manner there is internal rhyme in the same line because the vowel letters in the have of each word sound the same. The two words weak and weary create a picture in the mind the reader of the condition surround the writer. He has lost the physical strength and tired psychologically creating a sad mood at the beginning with the melancholic and sad situation surrounding the writer past the midnight. Using weak and weary in the same line creates the element of music. ...Download file to see next pagesRead more