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What is an example of alliteration in the poem the raven?

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The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe uses alliteration in word pairs. In the first three lines of the poem, there are three examples: weak/weary, quaint/curious, and nodded/nearly napping. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

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