1. Poetry terms you need to know to better analyze “The Raven.”
RHYME SCHEME
ALLITERATION, ASSONANCE & CONSONANCE
INTERNAL RHYME
REPETITION
ALLUSION

2. RHYME SCHEME
is a method of analyzing the rhyme pattern in a poem. Each end word is assigned a letter according to its rhyme. For example….
Twinkle twinkle little star, A
How I wonder what you are, A
Up above the world so high, B
Like a diamond in the sky… B

3. Another example of rhyme scheme charting…
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!' A
A B B

4. ALLITERATION, ASSONANCE, CONSONANCE
ALLITERATION is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words….for example,
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers….
ASSONANCE & CONSONANCE ARE WITHIN the words. Assonance are vowel sounds, and consonance are consonant sounds.
Assonance is the repetition of the ur sound in "purple" and "curtain.“ Consonance is the repetition of the s sound within "uncertain" and "rustling.“ Alliteration is the repetition of the s sound at the start of "silken" and "sad."

5. INTERNAL RHYME Rhyming words within a line of poetry:
“The sails at noon left off their tune”
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December…”

6. Repetition
The repeated use of the same word or word pattern in a poem.
In The Raven, Poe uses the word “nevermore” eleven times. He uses the phrase “quoth the Raven, Nevermore” five times.

7. ALLUSION
is a reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event. Allusions often refer to mythology, history, religious and literary texts, etc.
In The Raven, Poe alludes to “the Night’s Plutonian shore” to make readers think of the mythological underworld, and the gods of the underworld.

8. Find at least one example of allusion
2 internal rhyme
One each of alliteration, assonance and consonance.
DO THE RHYME SCHEME OF ONE stanza.