The Sound Effects in "The Raven"

In “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, the poem is full of many different rhyme schemes, which make the poem sound extremely good and interesting when being read out loud. For example, Poe loves to use rhyming with every stanza ends with the word “Never more” and nearly most sentences that end with “ore” sound. This makes the poem flows smoothly. Also, alliteration is used to make the sentence to have similar constant sound being repeated throughout the sentences, allowing some variation within the poem. As the student in the poem kept repeating Lenore, the bird replied back by saying Nevermore. The rhyming not only makes the poem fun to read, but also creates the story’s atmosphere that the student is having a conversation with the raven. Without the sound effect, the poem might be boring that it will turn into a short story instead which the student is just mourning for his wife’s death with a lot of figurative of speech and long boring description with a lot of adjectives to describe the bird. The repeating echoes of the sound and the rhyming allow this poem to become one of the most popular poems during Poe’s time and is repeatedly read aloud as if it’s a top hit pop song today.