Alliteration in the Poem of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

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.