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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How many words in this stanza rhyme with the word HIDE?Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride, On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.Now he patted his horse’s side, Now gazed on the landscape far and near, Then impetuous stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;But mostly he watched with eager searchThe belfry-tower of the old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height, A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sightA second lamp in the belfry burns!
A
1
B
2
C
3
D
4
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -’Paul Revere’s Ride’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a ten-stanza poem that is separated into uneven stanzas or lines. The shortest stanza is five lines and the longest is twenty-seven lines long. In regards to meter, Longfellow uses iambs and anapaests.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lines that rhyme share the same letter. For example, if you look at the first five lines of “Paul Revere’s Ride, ” you will see that the rhyme scheme is aabba. Rhyme and rhyme scheme are important because they make a poem pleasing to hear and easier to remember.

Detailed explanation-3: -What does the rhyme scheme and rhythm of Stanza 14 add to the meaning of this poem? It highlights the main character of the poem. It creates an eerie, suspenseful mood.

Detailed explanation-4: -Longfellow mostly uses two kinds of meter: (1) the iamb (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable – da DUM) and (2) the anapest, two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (da da DUM).

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