Rhyme Scheme Of The Raven

A theme is a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. In poems, there is usually a theme shown throughout. These poems are lines and stanzas that create a story or description of a certain object. In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, there is a theme of certain doom. This means atmosphere of the poem is very dark. Three examples in the poem that show this theme are the rhyme scheme, the word choice/repetition, and the raven itself throughout the poem. The rhyme scheme in The Raven helps to further create the atmosphere of doom. Throughout the poem, Poe uses a scheme of ABCBBB in the lines of the stanzas. The rhyming in the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth lines of every stanza helps