"Paul Revere's Ride"

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"Paul Revere's Ride" is a famous narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that dramatizes American patriot Paul Revere’s midnight ride at the start of the American Revolution.

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instanceOf literary work
narrative poem
poem
alternateTitle The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride
author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
commemoratesEvent warning of British troop movements
countryOfOrigin United States
educationalUse commonly taught in American schools
famousLine Listen my children and you shall hear
firstPublicationMedium magazine
firstPublishedIn The Atlantic Monthly
genre historical poetry
patriotic poetry
hasAdaptation audio recordings
illustrated editions
recitations
hasCulturalSignificance iconic American patriotic poem
hasForm rhymed verse
historicalAccuracy partly fictionalized
historicalBasis Paul Revere's midnight ride
includedInCollection Tales of a Wayside Inn
influenced American patriotic mythology
popular image of Paul Revere
language English
literaryMovement Romanticism
mainCharacter Paul Revere
meter anapestic meter
narrativeFrame addressed to children
narrativePerspective third person
originalPublicationDate 1860
period 19th-century American literature
portraysGroup American colonial patriots
portraysOpposingGroup British troops
publisher The Atlantic Monthly Press
relatedWork Tales of a Wayside Inn "The Landlord's Tale" version
rhymeScheme irregular
settingPlace Boston
Charlestown
Massachusetts
settingTime April 18 1775
subject American Revolution
Battles of Lexington and Concord
theme heroism
individual action in history
national identity
patriotism
tone celebratory
dramatic

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Paul Revere portrayedIn "Paul Revere's Ride"
Paul Revere subjectOf poem "Paul Revere's Ride"
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Hancock-Clarke House significantEvent Paul Revere’s midnight ride
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Tales of a Wayside Inn hasPart Paul Revere's Ride
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Tales of a Wayside Inn containsPoem Paul Revere's Ride
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Tales of a Wayside Inn notablePoemIncluded Paul Revere's Ride
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Paul Revere's Ride historicalBasis Paul Revere's midnight ride
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Paul Revere's Ride alternateTitle The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride
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William Dawes’s warning ride concurrentWith Paul Revere’s midnight ride
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Christ Church inspiredWork “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Menotomy associatedWith Paul Revere’s ride
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow notableWork Paul Revere's Ride
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Midnight Ride of Paul Revere basedOn poem "Paul Revere's Ride"
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Midnight Ride of Paul Revere depictsHistoricalEvent Paul Revere’s 1775 ride
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Christ Church in the City of Boston associatedWithEvent Paul Revere’s midnight ride
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