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While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “ ‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door; Only this, and nothing more.”
Internal Rhyme
• Within one line with “napping” and “tapping”.
• Internal rhyme between two lines with “napping” and “rapping”.
• Internal rhyme between the last word of one line and a word in the middle
of the following line with “tapping” and “rapping”.
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Symbolism is representing things by symbols or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself, often of a more abstract nature.
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