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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

It could have happened, as he explained in the aforementioned essay , because he had chosen “Nevermore&# as the refrain of the poem but was having a hard time coming up with a plausible reason for a character to say “Nevermore&# over and over again. Fox in Socks, Cat in the Hat) out loud. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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