Poetry Analysis “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is a poem about a man that is being stalked by a raven. The man that is being stalked by a raven is hearing a voice calling out “Lenore” at his chamber door. After a while he starts to notice that he is being hunted by a raven. There is a few of sound patterns in the poem. The poem is a free verse poem because almost none of the words rhyme at the end. There is almost aloft of the refrain in the poem like “Nevermore/Chamber Door/Lenore.” There are aloft of figurative language that Edgar uses throughout his poem. An example of figurative language is a simile, “Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken.”
(Poe 45) He tells the raven to leave
(Poe 45) He tells the raven to leave