Poetry Project By. Keosha Jones
"Paul Reveres Ride" By. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poetry Terms: Hyperbole
In the poem a use of end rhyme is used. The way end rhyme is used is at the end of every line in every stanza the word the word rhymes with another. "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"(Longfellow 629).
The Poem also uses a simile. "Across the moon like a prison bar/(Longfellow 629)
Relative Poem: American Revolution
By Michael B., Hingham, MA
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Over the hills and halls of Mount Vernon
I heard voices that cried,
"No taxation without representation!"
And the Tories who lied.
In the monuments and museums and houses
I saw people who dreamed
In the battlefields of blood and of anger
I saw the British get creamed
I saw brave men who died
And children who cried
I heard calls for freedom to vote
I heard lofty appeals
And men with ideals
I read words that the wisest men wrote
Yet it baffles me now
To understand how
These men died for America and why
It's a nation of thugs
And homewrecking drugs
And poor homeless children who cry
Our forefathers tried
But instead they died
If you look closely, I think you'll find:
A nation of crime
And a nation of death
Was not quite what they had in mind.
American Revolution
"Paul Revere's Ride"
"Paul Revere's Ride"
Poem Comparison
"Paul Revere's Ride" and "American Revolution" Comparisons
Citations
- Hingham, Micheal B. "American Revolution." Teen Ink. Emerson Media, 13 Feb. 2014. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.
- Sauer, Gefforey. "Paul Revere's Ride." Paul Revere's Ride. Web Master, 12 Jan. 2014. Web. 14 Jan. 2014.
- "The Paul Revere House." The Paul Revere House. Memorial Association, 31 Dec. 2013. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.