Statistics for The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

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and take thy form from off my {door}!”	90%
entrance at my chamber {door}—	90%
entrance at my chamber {door};—	90%
—here I opened wide the {door};—	90%
just above my chamber {door}—	90%
Only this and nothing {more}.”	90%
perched above my chamber {door}—	90%
—quit the bust above my {door}!	90%
rapping at my chamber {door}.	90%
“tapping at my chamber {door}—	90%
tapping at my chamber {door},	90%
while I pondered, weak and {weary},	83%
Once upon a midnight {dreary},	81%
Meant in croaking “{Nevermore}.”	75%
Of ‘Never—{nevermore}’.”	75%
Shall be lifted—{nevermore}!	75%
She shall press, ah, {nevermore}!	75%
Then the bird said “{Nevermore}.”	75%
With such name as “{Nevermore}.”	75%
and so gently you came {rapping},	74%
As of someone gently {rapping},	74%
And so faintly you came {tapping},	72%
Ghastly grim and ancient {Raven}	72%
In there stepped a stately {Raven}	72%
Soon again I heard a {tapping}	72%
suddenly there came a {tapping},	72%
volume of forgotten {lore}—	70%
But the fact is I was {napping},	68%
While I nodded, nearly {napping},	68%
and forget this lost {Lenore}!”	66%
from thy memories of {Lenore};	66%
murmured back the word, “{Lenore}!”—	66%
—sorrow for the lost {Lenore}—	66%
was the whispered word, “{Lenore}?”	66%
whom the angels name {Lenore}—	66%
whom the angels name {Lenore}.”	66%
Ah, distinctly I {remember}	65%
as my Hopes have flown {before}.”	62%
ever dared to dream {before};	62%
“Other friends have flown {before}—	62%
somewhat louder than {before}.	62%
terrors never felt {before};	62%
that lies floating on the {floor}	60%
throws his shadow on the {floor};	60%
tinkled on the tufted {floor}.	60%
wrought its ghost upon the {floor}.	60%
it was in the bleak {December};	58%
And each separate dying {ember}	55%
Nameless here {forevermore}.	55%
’Tis the {wind} and nothing more!”	55%
“Sir,” said I, “or {Madam},	52%
—tell me—tell me, I {implore}!”	47%
—tell me truly, I {implore}—	47%
truly your forgiveness I {implore};	47%
gaunt, and ominous bird of {yore}	46%
of the saintly days of {yore};	46%
what this ominous bird of {yore}—	46%
From my books surcease of {sorrow}	44%
on the placid bust, spoke {only}	44%
rustling of each purple {curtain}	43%
Clasp a rare and radiant {maiden}	42%
For the rare and radiant {maiden}	42%
It shall clasp a sainted {maiden}	42%
and the Night’s Plutonian {shore}!	41%
{Darkness} there and nothing more.	41%
Eagerly I wished the {morrow};	41%
on the Night’s Plutonian {shore}!”	41%
So that now, to still the {beating}	41%
wandering from the Nightly {shore}—	41%
Till I scarcely more than {muttered}	40%
“’Tis some visitor,” I {muttered},	40%
hesitating then no {longer},	39%
—vainly I had sought to {borrow}	39%
But, with mien of lord or {lady},	37%
when, with many a flirt and {flutter},	37%
Presently my soul grew {stronger};	36%
Open here I flung the {shutter},	34%
Let my heart be still a {moment}	33%
—little relevancy {bore};	32%
On the pallid bust of {Pallas}	32%
Perched upon a bust of {Pallas}	32%
that melancholy burden {bore}	32%
till his songs one burden {bore}—	32%
{Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”}	31%
And the only word there {spoken}	30%
by reply so aptly {spoken},	30%
Deep into that darkness {peering},	30%
of that lie thy soul hath {spoken}!	30%
This I whispered, and an {echo}	30%
Some late visitor {entreating}	29%
“’Tis some visitor {entreating}	29%
“Though thy crest be shorn and {shaven},	28%
thou,” I said, “art sure no {craven},	28%
and the stillness gave no {token},	27%
But the silence was {unbroken},	27%
Leave my loneliness {unbroken}!	27%
Leave no black plume as a {token}	27%
of my heart, I stood {repeating}	27%
all my soul within me {burning},	26%
And the silken, sad, {uncertain}	26%
and this mystery {explore};—	26%
and this mystery {explore}—	26%
of the countenance it {wore},	26%
that no living human {being}	26%
Back into the chamber {turning},	25%
long I stood there wondering, {fearing},	25%
—prophet still, if bird or {devil}!	25%
—prophet still, if bird or {devil}!—	25%
something at my window {lattice};	24%
all my fancy into {smiling},	23%
my sad fancy into {smiling},	23%
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of {evil}!	23%
That one word, as if his {soul}	23%
But the Raven still {beguiling}	22%
Then this ebony bird {beguiling}	22%
Take thy beak from out my {heart},	20%
Ever yet was blessed with {seeing}	19%
fowl to hear discourse so {plainly},	19%
is its only stock and {store}	19%
—not a feather then he {fluttered}—	19%
Nothing farther then he {uttered}	19%
burned into my bosom’s {core};	18%
Not the least {obeisance} made he;	18%
Startled at the stillness {broken}	18%
still is sitting, still is {sitting}	18%
Then, methought, the air grew {denser},	18%
{This it is} and nothing more.”	18%
Though its answer little {meaning}	18%
But the Raven, sitting {lonely}	17%
Caught from some unhappy {master}	17%
in that one word he did {outpour}.	17%
—by that God we both {adore}—	16%
Fancy unto fancy, {thinking}	16%
of a demon’s that is {dreaming},	16%
that the lamp-light gloated {o’er},	16%
whom unmerciful {disaster}	16%
with the lamp-light gloating {o’er},	16%
By the grave and stern {decorum}	15%
Followed fast and followed {faster}	15%
Much I marvelled this {ungainly}	15%
And my soul from out that {shadow}	14%
“Be that word our sign of {parting},	14%
Is there—is there {balm} in Gilead?	14%
perfumed from an unseen {censer}	14%
Straight I wheeled a cushioned {seat}	13%
And the Raven, never {flitting},	12%
But whose velvet-violet {lining}	12%
For we cannot help {agreeing}	12%
On the cushion’s velvet {lining}	12%
Quaff, oh quaff this kind {nepenthe}	12%
Respite—respite and {nepenthe}	12%
Tell this soul with sorrow {laden}	12%
tempest tossed thee here {ashore},	12%
Then, upon the velvet {sinking},	11%
And his eyes have all the {seeming}	10%
bird or fiend!” I shrieked, {upstarting}—	10%
I betook myself to {linking}	10%
Till the dirges of his {hope}	10%
with my head at ease {reclining}	10%
but no syllable {expressing}	9%
“Doubtless,” said I, “what it {utters}	9%
“Get thee back into the {tempest}	9%
On this home by Horror {haunted}	9%
What this grim, ungainly, {ghastly},	9%
And the lamp-light o’er him {streaming}	8%
Bird or beast upon the {sculptured}	8%
This and more I sat {divining},	8%
This I sat engaged in {guessing},	8%
Desolate yet all {undaunted},	6%
on this desert land {enchanted}—	6%