THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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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: -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: -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).