Abstract:
This study deals with Alliteration in the Poem of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan
Poe. The data in this research was taken from The Raven Poem Script. Descriptive
qualitative method was applied to analyze the data. This method is used to
describe or to discover alliteration words found in the poem and to find how many
alliteration words found in The Raven poem. The findings show that The Raven
poem has 18 stanzas and there are 212 alliteration words found in the poem. We
can find alliteration in each stanza of the poem. Alliteration occurs when the same
sound or sound group is repeated at beginning of two or more stressed syllables of
a word group (usually the first sound in a word). For example, alliteration of W in
stanza 1, line 1, occurs because the words once, while, weak, and weary exist in
one line and produce W sound at the beginning of words.
