The speaker heard a mysterious tapping at his chamber door. When he opened the door, he found nothing there except darkness. The tapping continued, driving the speaker to despair and madness due to his uncertainty over the source of the sound.
"Midnight" is the noun in the phrase "midnight dreary." "Dreary" is the adjective that is describing "midnight."In the English language, the adjective usually comes before the noun, however; the phrase "midnight dreary" comes from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," in which Poe places "dreary" after "midnight" in order to set up the rhyme with "weary" that follows: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...." The inverted syntax is also indicative of the time period in which Poe was writing.
The cast of A Midnight Dreary - 2011 includes: Kris Lundberg as Lenore Frances Moti Margolin as Allan Roderick Richie Wilson as Eddie
CBS Library - 1979 Once Upon a Midnight Dreary - 1.1 was released on: USA:21 October 1979
CBS Library - 1979 Once Upon a Midnight Dreary 1-1 was released on: USA: 21 October 1979
The cast of Once Upon a Midnight Dreary II - 2006 includes: Sylvia Kovacs as Jen Karl Peterson as Ted Nella Vinci as Vanessa
ona a midnight dreary, on a bleak december, in his house(office)
The only way to truly doesn't afraid is upon a midnight dreary I wandered that which are we too?
"Once upon a midnight dreary" uses anastrophe, which inverts the more common 'dreary midnight' to rhyme with weary at the end of the line. It is also a play on the common fairy tale opening of: "Once upon a time" to set a tone for the poem.
The nouns in the example verse are:midnightvolumelorenappingtapping
The speaker describes his mood at the beginning of "The Raven" as "weary" and "dreary."
Lost amongst the dark, dreary ocean currents at midnight, the crew reported to the captain that the seas are no longer navigable.
Yes, dreary is an adjective--a dreary day.