THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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Dead are buried at the meeting house.
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The British will burn the meeting house.
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A battle will occur near the meeting house.
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Revere expects to see a light in its windows.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Longfellow’s famous poem recounts the silversmith’s long ride through Middlesex County to warn the revolutionaries that the British were on their way-thus allowing the Americans to muster their forces and drive back the British the following morning.
Detailed explanation-2: -Structure of Paul Revere’s Ride In regards to meter, Longfellow uses iambs and anapaests. The latter refers to two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable and the former, an iamb, is a metrical foot that contains one unstressed beat followed by one stressed beat.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Paul Revere’s Ride” is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
Detailed explanation-4: -The words used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” to describe the signal used to guide the “midnight ride of Paul Revere” at the start of the Revolutionary War.