The Raven Copywork
A grieving scholar is visited at midnight by a bird with one relentless answer
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About this printable
Poe's masterpiece at full length — all eighteen stanzas — for students who want a serious, long-form handwriting project. The internal rhyme and trochaic meter make the lines surprisingly easy to copy accurately, and the refrain gives a built-in checkpoint every sixth line. A standout for Halloween, American literature, and high school copywork portfolios. 44 pages, 1/4-inch letters in manuscript print on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3). Edgar Allan Poe, 1845. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: 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.” — 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 here for evermore. — And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain · Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; · So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, · “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— · Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: · This it is, and nothing more.” — Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, · “Sir,” said I, “or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; · But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, · And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, · That I scarce was sure I heard you.” Here I opened wide the door: · Darkness there, and nothing more. — Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, · Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; · But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, · And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore!” · This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!” · Merely this, and nothing more. — Back into my chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, · Soon again I heard a tapping, somewhat louder than before. · “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice; · Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore— · Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore;— · ’Tis the wind, and nothing more.” — Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, · In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; · Not the least obeisance made he; — Edgar Allan Poe, 1845. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: manuscript print. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3).
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