What is the style of the poem "The Raven"?

Although he is often regarded as one of the
major voices of American Romanticism,describes the composition of "" in his essay
"" as a cool and logical exercise, closer in spirit to the Augustan school than the
Romantics. He had recently read and reviewed a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning called
"Lady Geraldine's Courtship," which begins,

Dear my friend and fellow-student, I would lean my spirit o'er you!

Down the purple of this chamber tears should scarcely run at will.

I am humbled who was humble. Friend, I bow my head before you:

You should lead me to my peasants, but their faces are too still.

Poe used the meter of Mrs. Browning's poem, trochaic octameter,
but wrote in six-line stanzas, adding internal rhymes and frequent assonance and . The gloom of
the poet's chamber and its richness are accentuated together in images like "the silken sad
uncertain / Rustling of each purple curtain" and the grandiose vocabulary and classical
allusions add to this . The length of the lines also adds a certain stateliness to the progress
of the verse and allows Poe to crowd in a great many descriptive adjectives.

Although critical opinion is divided, there is nothing else in
world literature quite like "The Raven." The narrative is rather foolish, meaning that
the genius of the poem lies in its unique atmosphere and style: gothic, gloomy, portentous,
verbose, sumptuous, and, as one would expect from one of Poe's unreliable narrators, not quite
sane.