Suddenly, there was a tapping, like the sound of someone gently rapping at my chamber door (3-4). ... Line 21, "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping. . ."" has the repetitive short "a- sound in "fact,"" "napping,"" and "rapping."" ... Consonance can be found in the words "napping,"" "tapping,"" "rapping,"" with the double "p- sound in lines 3 and 4 "while I nodded, nearly ...
As he reads, nodding in and out of sleep, a rapping at his door wakes him, eventually leading him to the infamous Raven. ... The thoughts of the moon shining every night to remind him of that which he had lost, of the stars never rising without her memory, and of the way he spends his nights next to "her tomb by the sounding sea," show how Poe exemplifies darkness even through something so beautiful as love. In the third stanza, Poe describes how Annabel Lee's life is lost. ...
(p.13) Perversion provides the rationale for otherwise unjustifiable acts, such as killing the first cat or rapping with his cane upon the plastered-up wall behind which stood his wife's corpse "...already greatly decayed and clotted with gore." ...
