Analysis Of The Midnight Message Of Paul Revre

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8) In lines 128-130, it states that people will waken and listen to hear the “they hurrying hoof-beats of that steed” and “the midnight message of Paul Revere.”
9) When the speaker says “hardly a man is now alive/ Who remembers that famous day and year”, they are telling us that nobody exactly remembers the story of Paul Revere’s ride.

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