What does the second stanza of "The Raven" mean in modern day? Also what are the literary devices for that stanza?

The second stanza is
telling the reader that the speaker is recalling a gloomy December day or evening.  While he was
sitting in his study, the fire that he had in his fireplace was dying out and casting shadows
that reminded him of ghosts on the floor.  He is sitting down to read his book and wishing for
the day to be over while he thinks about his "lost love" named .  That is a modern day
summary of the second stanza.

Literary devices that are found in this stanza
are as follows:    

There is assonance (repetition of vowel sounds) in line
one -- "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" -- in the words
remember and December.  This also exemplifies internal rhyme.  The second line contains  in that
the burning logs were "dying" --  "And each separate dying ember wrought its
ghost upon the floor."  Lines 4 and 5 contain(repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning of consecutive words) -- these examples are "surcease of sorrow -- sorrow"
in line 4 and "rare and radiant" from line 5.