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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES

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What is the rhyme scheme of the first two stanzas of the poem?Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.He said to his friend, “If the British marchBy land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-archOf the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light, -One if by land, and two if by sea;And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarmThrough every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”Then he said “Good night!” and with muffled oarSilently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings layThe Somerset, British man-of-war:A phantom ship, with each mast and sparAcross the moon, like a prison-bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnifiedBy its own reflection in the tide.
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Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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. As you read, think about the rhyme and rhyme scheme of Longfellow’s poem.

Detailed explanation-2: -By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paul Revere’s Ride It begins with the now-famous lines, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” and depicts a dangerous, midnight ride as Revere warns the colonists about the British attack. The poem recounts his lantern signal system in the lines “one if by land, two if by sea.”

Detailed explanation-4: -’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.

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