Period 6-English 7

Directions: 
Memorize the first stanza of "The Raven."  You will recite in class for a 10-point product grade.  
You may memorize the second stanza for 10 bonus process points.
Feeling like you need a challenge?  Memorize the entire poem (all 108 lines) for a special prize and bragging rights!  The deadline for memorizing the entire poem is December 12.

The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe
  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.”

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    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
    From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
            Nameless  for evermore.