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This is in the first stanza of Longfellow's poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere written in 1861. He is telling how Revere would know how the British came into Boston . One lantern by land and two lanterns by sea from the Old North Church. In this way Revere would know how to warn the colonists. As a point of reference Revere did not finish his ride.
The main emotion in the fourth stanza is the sadness of a man slowly dying.
One of the poetic elements used so effectively by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in his poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," was his use of fire as a symbol of good, battling the opposite, darkness as bad. The metaphor began in the poem as Paul Revere waiting in the darkness for the signal of light in the church, "one by land, two by sea." When the signal is recognized, during the actual description of the ride, the pounding of the horse's iron shod hoofs on the cobblestones threw out sparks (of liberty) that kindled a nation's revolutionary "fire." And finally in the second to last stanza, Longfellow emphasizes the notion of fire as an element of freedom in the hands of the patriot farmers, "pausing behind every fence and farmyard wall" only to fire and load. And then leads the reader to yearn for light, whether a candle flame, a spark from a horses hoof, or fire from the end of a musket, now all positive images in the poem, with the final last stanza of the poem by not using light once, but its opposite, the word "darkness," twice! And ending with the final line as a "midnight message." The great English writer J.R.R. Tolkien's work, "The Lord of the Rings," uses the play of darkness and light in much the same metaphorical, poetic, effective, and enjoyable fashion.
stanza four " shatter'd and sunder'd "
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alliteration
The last stanza of "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow follows an AABB rhyme scheme. This means that the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other, while the last words of the first and third lines also rhyme with each other.
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The blacksmith is a role model for the community in the way that he balances his family and work life.
The poem "Autumn Within" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses a simple and common stanza form called quatrains - four-line stanzas.
From Longfellow's "An April Day," the word that best describes the mood of the stanza would be "buoyant." The stanza likely conveys a sense of optimism, lightness, and freshness associated with the arrival of spring.
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The rhyme scheme in "A Sad Song About Greenwich Village" by Gwendolyn Brooks is AABBCCDD for each stanza.
Aftermath refers to the condition we humans leave the world in by living here. The first stanza describes the passing of seasons and repeats that the summer fields are mown. Longfellow then says that "we gather in the aftermath" . Keep in mind the two definitions of Aftermath State of consequence (after disaster) Second growth in the same year "We gather" in the fields we have mown leaving them full of only meager second growth and pathetic plants We abuse our planet and the destruction of land and nature is a scene resembling the aftermath of a disaster
In the fourth stanza of "The Tyger," William Blake draws on the imagery of blacksmiths and their work to depict the creation of the fierce and powerful tiger. The burning fire and hammering tools of a blacksmith are used as metaphors for the intense and deliberate process of creating such a ferocious creature.