Longfellow wrote the poem using rhyme to create a rhythm that sounded like a galloping horses hoof beats. For this questions think of the poem being read aloud as a song, like in the video.

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Longfellow wrote the poem using rhyme to create a rhythm that sounded like a galloping horses’ hoof beats. For this questions think of the poem being read aloud as a song, like in the video.

A	True
B	False
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Written in anapestic tetrameter meant to suggest the galloping of a horse, this folk ballad recalls a hero of the American Revolution and his famous “midnight ride” to warn the Americans about the impending British raid on Concord, Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The general structure: the rhyme-scheme The sonnet Nature is modeled upon the Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet form. It has fourteen lines in two sets: two quatrains forming an octave, rhyming abba, abba; and six lines in two sets of three, rhyming abc, abc.

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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