The use of rhyme and repetition in "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe, are meant to affect the reader in the following way:
It causes the reader to sense how desperate and devastated the speaker is.
Since the raven is a symbol of death and loneliness, as well as of a somber state of mind, the speaker wants it to leave his house. The presence of the animal affects the speaker in an unbearable way, since it reminds him of the loss of his significant other.
The rhymes make it for a feeling of frantic desperation, whereas the repetition, particularly "nothing more" and "nevermore", shows how strongly mourning affects the speaker, how devastated he is.
We can see how badly the speaker wants the bird to leave in the following passage:
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my
door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Answer:
The use of the rhyme scheme in the excerpt is important to the excerpt as it allows the audience to get a better understanding of the atmosphere. The rhyming of words is used by Poe to symbolize the advanced levels of emotion that the narrator is feeling from the raven. The use of the raven also symbolizes the despair and loneliness from the narrator’s loss of his significant other. This reminds the narrator of his loss causing his emotions to increase, and the usage of the rhymes and the words rhymed together shows just how distraught the narrator is – these words being token, spoken, and unbroken. The repetition is used to show just how desperate the narrator is, as the main thing on his mind at the moment is what he is repeating, which allows the audience to get a better understanding of the characters in the scene.
