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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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What are the literary devices in stanzas nine and ten of "The Raven"?
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JAY GILBERT, PH.D. eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
There are numerous literary devices we can identify in these two stanzas of the poem. First, we can identify the use of alliteration in several places—"much I marvelled," "feather . . . fluttered," "bird or beast" and so on. What is particularly interesting is that Poe often combines his alliteration with instances of internal rhyme, where a word in the middle of a line rhymes with the word at the end of it—for example, "agreeing . . . being" and "uttered . . . fluttered." This draws the reader's attention to these lines.