USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This popular folk ballad about a hero of the American Revolution is written in anapestic tetrameter, which was meant to suggest the galloping of a horse, and is narrated by the landlord of an inn who remembers the famous “midnight ride” to warn the Americans about the impending British invasion.

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: -“Paul Revere’s Ride” has many examples of figurative language, including personification, simile, and metaphor.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Paul Revere’s Ride” is less a poem about the Revolutionary War than about the impending Civil War-and about the conflict over slavery that caused it. That meaning, though, has been almost entirely forgotten. Longfellow, a passionately private man, was, just as passionately and privately, an abolitionist.