To begin with, there is a surplus of rhymes in "Antigonish". This is evident at the end of lines 3 and 4 of the second stanza, the two words “hall” and “all” rhyme. Additionally, there are more rhymes in the poem and most, if not all, are end sound rhymes. The author of Antigonish used simpler poetic devices to set the mood and enhance the experience of reading the poem. When the poem is compared to “The Raven,” the vocabulary of “Antigonish” is much simpler and overall easier to understand. Repetition is used in both poems to emphasize certain parts of the poem. For example. in "Antigonish", the phrase "He wasn't here today" was repeated twice. This line followed the line when the speaker claimed to see a man who wasn't there. In the same way. in "The Raven", repetition is often used to lead the reader to understand the speaker's emotions. To illustrate this, the phrase that the raven is a prophet and an evil thing was repeated twice, just to emphasize the speaker's point. The poem is enriched by the use of repetition in both cases. In "Antigonish," saying that the speaker "met a man who wasn't there" and then immediately stating, "He wasn't here today," leads readers to think about what the speaker is talking about. the author. Readers must analyze the author's words to understand what is happening. In “The Raven,” repetition is used to help readers understand the speaker’s point of view. Unlike “The Raven,” “Antigonish” is less complex and contains no allusions. “The Raven” alludes to the “Plutonian shore of Night,” which further helps the reader understand the poem. An illusion is able to add an extra dimension to a poem that one might not have thought of. On the other hand, there is nothing the reader needs to know before