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Proper rhythm for Paul Revere's ride

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080123
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YOUR EDITORIAL "Boston in verse" (Jan. 21) comments, "Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, `Paul Revere's Ride,' and it's still easy to hear through the poem's rhythms how the famous rider clip- clopped through Boston's streets." But Longfellow does not depict Revere riding a horse within Boston.

For Revere's midnight ride through the suburbs of Boston, the poem's rhythms evoke the sound of "the hurrying hoof-beats of that steed," galloping, not clip-clopping. Perhaps the editorial writer was thinking of Robert Lawson's book "Mr. Revere and I," narrated by Revere's horse, Scheherazade, who ...

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