The Raven_E A Poe
...e man started to smile because of the stern decorum of the countenance it wore. It was an ugly old raven with its feather on his head shaven. He asked what its name is. Nevermore is the answer. He worries that the raven will leave him like his friends did…it repeats ,,nevermore”. Apparently the raven can speak only one word so it may have taught him a sad and depressed master. The man takes a chair, sits down and starts to think what this, grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking Nevermore. He tries to put all these things together looking at the fowl and begins to feel depressed because of Lenore who should be there (She shall press, ah, nevermore!). He becomes desperate and angry. He wants to forget that she had ever existed and drink a drug to put her out of mind but the raven quoth ,,Nevermore!”. The man thinks that the raven is a prophet and therefore he is sending him away to take the pain from his soul (Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!). But the raven stays still, his eyes like a demon´s. It will never leave him- that’s the raven´s answer. Finally he realised that the raven was just a shadow. It has never existed. The poem has eighteen stanzas. Each stanza has six lines that first three lines are composed of 16 syllables, the next two of 15 syllables and the last line has half of the length than the previous first three lines. The order of stressed and unstressed syllables is changing in lines. Therefore it is possible to divide these lines into feet. One foot consists of two syllables, the first stressed and the second unstressed what is a formula for a trochee rhythm. This rhythm does not change in the poem however the first three lines have eight feet we call them trochaic octameter (acatalectic), the next two lines have the trochaic octameter too but with the last foot unfinished (catalectic) and the last line is a trochaic tetrameter catalectic (because it has only four feet). Pause between the foot in the midd...