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Word: anapests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work, but at first Revere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early American | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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