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First verse:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -

Only this, and nothing more.'

Last Verse:

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,

And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

Shall be lifted - nevermore!

Ummn is that supposed to be the first verse? ^^

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QUOTH Sat on a bust of Pallas stared at narrator and said over and over, "Nevermore."

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Edgar Allan Poe wrote this classic American poem The Raven published in 1845.

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There is no moral. The narrator was expressing his eternal pain for his lost lover Lenore.

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Lenore is both a character in the poem The Raven as well as the title of a separate poem by Poe. Poe wrote a poem called "Lenore" in 1831.

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It could be that the raven repeating the word nevermore, which refers to Lenore's death, reminds the narrator that, even though he mourns, she's never coming back.

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The original story that Poe adapted was a story he was writing about his dying wife Virginia. When he met with Dickens, who had lost and stuffed a cherished pet (the raven from Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge (1841)), Poe must have been inspired to use a talking raven for his own poem.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem "The Raven" because his father abandoned him and his mother died when he was almost two.

These kinds of poems were the best Poe could offer and it was why I think Poe wrote it.

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through the window

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Its amused I got it right

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The only absolute about the setting is the time; the first line tells us that "once upon a midnight dreary" so it is around midnight, while the second verse says it was a "bleak December." No direct clues however exist to signal where the plot is occurring, but one can assume that by the use of a "chamber door" that it is a fairly high class neighborhood.

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The rhyme scheme of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is ABCBBB.

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There's a bit of controversy with that one. My suggestion would be to read Philosophy of Composition (by Poe) which goes over how Poe wrote The Raven and why he wrote it that way. You should also consider Poe's biography and look for the similarities between Poe and the narrator.
His family life

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When Poe is reflecting on his lost Lenore.

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The Raven could signify two things, one dark and one light.

In darkness it could signify is the dark and depressing memory of the loss of Lenore, constantly reminding the writer that he shall never see his love again.

In light it can signify the release of the memory by a means of death, which in turn will reunite the writer with his love Lenore, as common folklore claims Ravens carry away the souls of the dead (And crows as well for those that will say "No it's crows" because you saw the movie).

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Despair

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It says in the story 'While I nodded, nearly napping,...' this infers that he was asleep. He may have been dreaming he was awake and being included in this conversation with the Raven, therefore never being fully awake. When he really did wake up he probably wrote this down as a story.
Yes because he says, "doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared dream before
Yes because in the story it said ''But the fact is I was napping and so gently you came rapping. Just read the story and it will tell you.

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In the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, we can surely notice a striking feeling of gloom (and doom) in his reciting. During that phase the poet's wife was at her death-bed and by the time he finished the poem she was dead.

The poet is onto a note of no life after death. That everything about life happens on the Earth itself.

He was also feeling quite lonely; which can be deciphered from his lines stating that everyone is leaving me.

In a way the poem was also making us realize that Ravens are not ominous.

his mood or what he is doing example 'thrilled me-- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before"

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In December at midnight. Also in the chamber.

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The narrator assumes that the raven says, "Nevermore," because it is the only word the raven learned from some unhappy master. It is also symbolic for the narrator's lost love, Lenore.
one is exhaustive

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Edgar Allan Poe's view on poetry is that all poems must be a "rhythmical creation of beauty". In his eyes, melancholy and sadness is beautful. He thinks that the death of a young beautiful woman is itself full of beauty. In both "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven", Poe writes about this so-called beauty.

In "Annabel Lee", a young man is mourning the death of a beautiful young lady. Even though the woman had died quite some time ago, the man is still in melancholy. He misses her terribly and constantly thinks of how she was she was tragically taken from him by the angels who were jealous of their love, and by her family who didn't think the he himself was capable of bringing her to her final resting place. He loved Annabel Lee more than anyother human can love another. The following quote tells the reader how much he loves her and shows that he would do anything for her, even if that means sleeping by her tomb, each and every night. "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the side of the sea."

In "The Raven", a man, most likely older than the man in "Annabel Lee", mourns the death of his love whom he called "Lenore". Lenore, like Annabel Lee, had died several years earlier. In "The Raven", man hears tapping on his chamber door and sees the curtains slowly swaying. He believes that it can be no other than Lenore. Unfortunately for him though, it is only but a bird. A large, black bird known as the Raven. Although the men in these two stories are similar because they both mourn for their loved ones, they are also different. The man in "The Raven" may be sad about his lost, but his love cannot compare to that of the man in "Annabel Lee".

In these two short stories, the two main characters, as mentioned before, are very much alike, yet at the same time different. They both lose the woman of their life and they both are still in mourning. Poe's poems are usually about such sorrow and sadness, and it is this that makes his poems beautiful.