Read the first stanza of the poem The Raven* by Edgar Allan
Poe. Which phrase helps create the gloomy tone of the poem?
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 some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
some visitor." I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
