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The narrator is woken up by tapping at his door. 

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The narrator is woken up by tapping at his door. 

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At this point, the tone is calm, melancholy, and rather laid back.
The author was "nearly napping" when "suddenly there came tapping"(Poe 3) at the door.

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He thinks about Lenore, his lost love, and why he was up so late reading. 

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He thinks about Lenore, his lost love, and why he was up so late reading. 

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The melancholy element of his tone intensifies at this point.
The narrator feels "sorrow for the lost Lenore" (Poe 10).

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As he goes to answer the door, thinking about Lenore, he grows nervous, yet slightly wistful, hoping beyond hope that Lenore is at the door. 

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As he goes to answer the door, thinking about Lenore, he grows nervous, yet slightly wistful, hoping beyond hope that Lenore is at the door. 

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Here, his tone becomes quite nervous. Quite a few of his remarks are rationalizations to help him cope with the anticipation and anxiousness.
The narrator begins to feel nervous when when he "stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal dared to dream before"(Poe 25-26).

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He expresses intense fear upon opening the door.

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He expresses intense fear upon opening the door.

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When he opens the door, he stares "deep into" the "darkness" and begins "fearing" what will be on the other side (Poe, 25-26).  Although he feared what was on the other side, there turned out to be nothing, so he turned "back into the chamber" (Poe, 31).

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As he heads to the window, he begins feeling hopeless, no longer thinking that it is Lenore knocking. 

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As he heads to the window, he begins feeling hopeless, no longer thinking that it is Lenore knocking. 

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As he loses hope of a miracle, the narrator begins to dread what is knocking, and fears the worst.

The narrator turns, "the soul within [him] burning" and goes to see "what the threat is, and [the] mystery to explore"(Poe 31-34).

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He feels incredibly relieved upon seeing that the knocker is nothing more than a raven. 

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He feels incredibly relieved upon seeing that the knocker is nothing more than a raven. 

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This relief, however brief, affects the tone, as the narrator's voice relaxes, with a bit of nervous humor.
The narrator, when he sees the Raven, asks in jest for the Raven to "tell [him] what [its] lordly name is" (Poe 47), not expecting a reply.

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The narrator is desperate to learn what the Raven's appearance means. 

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The narrator is desperate to learn what the Raven's appearance means. 

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This moment of pure desperation between relief and anger marks the beginning of the narrator's descent into darkness - and the tone at this point shows it.
His tone is bitter and demanding, grasping violently at something to restore reason. He describes the Raven as a "fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into [his] bosom's core" (Poe 73).

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At the end of the story the narrator becomes angry with the raven and wants it to leave his chamber. He begins to shout at the raven, "thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil" (Poe 85). Although the narrator shouts at the raven, it "still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas"  (Poe 103-104) upon his chamber door.