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The Raven Study Guide

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by Edgar Allan Poe
About 42 pages (12,449 words)
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The poem is comprised of eighteen stanzas of six lines each, and most frequently employs a meter known as trochaic octameter, which refers to a line containing eight trochees-pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables. The first five lines of each stanza are all in trochaic octameter, with the final unstressed syllable missing in lines two, four, and five of each stanza. The sixth line of each stanza consists of three trochees and an extra final stressed syllable. An example of the fifth and sixth lines from the last stanza shows this pattern:

And my / soul from / out that / shadow / that lies /
floating / on the / floor
Shall be / lifted- / never / more!

Poe achieves variety in this rhythm by adding pauses, and.....

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