THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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And one was safe and asleep in his bed
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Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead
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And felt the damp of the river-fog
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Meanwhile, impatient to the mount and ride
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He heard the bleating of the flock
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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: -For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride, ” became a national favourite. 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-4: -Personification: Longfellow conveys an example of personification in the phrase “The watchful night-wind, as it went creeping from tent to tent, and seeming to whisper, All is well!” (stanza 6).