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 someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Can you identify the meter used in this poem? (Define it in terms of both foot and meter and then click here.)
The lines from "The Raven" quoted above use an interesting technique called internal rhyme at the caesura in lines one and three.
Jack London is buried under this rock on his eucalyptus ranch in Glen Ellyn, California. It is necessary to walk a mile and a half into the woods in order to find the grave.