"Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December," Which sound device is at work inside this one line?

"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;" What sound device drives this line?

"Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor." Which word in the line imitates the sound it names?

Listen to the beat of "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," How does each foot fall?

Poe stacks "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt" into one line about the bird. What sound device ties those four words together?

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing," Which pair of words carries the rhyme inside the line?

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping--rapping at my chamber door." Which words chime together across these two lines?

Where does the poem find its speaker in the opening stanzas, before any bird appears?

"Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling," What is the speaker's state at this point in the poem?

The speaker tells himself, "Doubtless ... what it utters is its only stock and store." What is he doing at this stage?

The speaker sits guessing at the bird's meaning, then breaks off: the cushion's velvet lining is one "She shall press, ah, nevermore!" What has changed in him?

Late in the poem the speaker demands to know whether there is any healing for him, and whether he will hold Lenore again hereafter. Why ask, when he knows the bird's one word?

In the final stanza the raven is "never flitting, still is sitting," and the lamp throws its shadow on the floor. Where does that leave the speaker?

The raven settles on "a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door." Whose likeness is that bust?

The speaker shrieks, "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!" What place is he naming?

The speaker cries that angels have sent him respite and nepenthe, that he may "forget this lost Lenore!" What is he begging for?

"Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, / It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore--" What is the speaker asking?

Lenore is "the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- / Nameless here for evermore." What do those lines establish about her?

The speaker says he had "vainly ... sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow." What had he been trying to get out of his reading?

The early stanzas close on phrases like "Only this and nothing more" and "'Tis the wind and nothing more." From the bird's first answer on, every stanza closes on "nevermore." What does the switch do?

Every stanza of the poem ends on the same rhyme sound: door, lore, more, Lenore, shore, nevermore. What does holding one rhyme for the whole poem do?

"Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!" What does the stammering repetition inside this line do?

The first time the speaker opens the chamber door, what is there?

What has the speaker just asked the bird when it says "Nevermore" for the first time?

How does the raven get into the chamber?