"Paul Revere's Ride"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Paul Revere's Ride" to "The Ballad of the Oysterman" by Oliver Wendall Holmes
Both of this poems are narratives because they both tell the story of a person or thing.
Textual Evidence
In "Paul Revere's Ride" the poem tells the story of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn people the British are coming.
In "The Ballad of the Oysterman" the poem tells the legend of a oysterman who finds his love by a river bank.
Poetry Terms
Internal Rhyme
Rhyming at the middle or beginning of a line.
"Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere."
This poem has internal rhyme because in the lines above there is a rhyme at the middle of each line.
Rhyme
Rhyming pattern lek a,a,b,b,a
"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."
This poem rhymes to certain plot, making it a rhyming scheme or rhyming pattern
Simile
Comparing words using like or as.
"A phantom ship, with each mast and spar across the man like a prison bar."
In the poem the author uses like to compare mast and spar to prison bars.