Alliteration In The Raven

In “The Raven” the narrator is painfully grieving the death of his wife, Lenore. It seems the raven can be seen as supernatural, considering the raven has human-like qualities, or the raven could be seen as the hallucination of the narrator slipping into madness.
In “The Raven,” Poe uses six lines in each stanza, with the fourth and fifth line's last words rhyming. However, he connects the whole poem by making the sixth line in each stanza, end with a form of the word “more.” Though the pattern does not seem necessarily complicated, it seems Poe uses sound in “The Raven” to steadily intensify the emotions of the reader. Since Poe uses alliteration, internal rhymes, and rhymes in the fourth and fifth lines of each stanza, he creates a dramatic and heightened flow within the poem. Because Poe repeats the word “more,” in the sixth line of each stanza, he emphasizes its meaning and makes the reader think about the poem well after reading it.

After two months of marriage Rowena becomes ill. When she dies, he believes that Ligeia comes back to life in Rowena's body. He exclaims, “can I never be mistaken—these are the full, and the black, and the wild eyes of the lady—of the lady Ligeia” (701). While it is unlikely for this to happen, the narrator continually mentioning his opium use, on Rowena's deathbed, makes us consider this possibly to be a drug-induced illusion. Both seem to appreciate science, math, languages, education, and “metaphysical investigations” (695). However, it seems that Ligeia could possibly be a real person, however, her knowledge, beauty, and perfection makes it seem less likely that she exists. If she is a figment of the narrator's imagination it might be that Ligeia is simply his ideal for perfection. Even if she does not truly exist, the narrator may feel that there is someone who does posses all of her