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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, whose meter was taken from Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala, is written almost entirely in trochees, barring the occasional substitution ( iamb, spondee, pyrrhic, etc.
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* Paul Revere's Ride alerted Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride.
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That denouement plus Alden's engagement with rivaling Indians who plotted to kill newcomers is told elaborately in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.
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Their story was considered " the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship " and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Iambic pentameter and dactylic hexameter were later used by a number of poets, including William Shakespeare and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, respectively.
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He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride.
* Evangeline ( 1847 ), an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loosely based on the events surrounding the 1755 deportation.
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* The opening lines of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem " The Village Blacksmith " are " Under a spreading chestnut-tree / the village smithy stands.
The parish was named Evangeline in honor of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem, Evangeline.
* The title of the episode comes from the opening line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's " The Arrow and the Song ": " I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I knew not where.
Rider reportedly was responsible for naming Hiawatha, taking the young Indian's name from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha.
St. Martinville is the site of the Evangeline Oak made famous in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem.
The Evangeline Oak, made famous in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Evangeline ", stands on the bank of the Bayou Teche.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's grandfather left here for the New World in the 18th century.
For example, the name of the City Beautiful urbanist movement emphasizes " beautiful "; similarly, in the line " This is the forest primeval " ( from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline ), " primeval " comes to the fore.
* The Old North Church, a precise replica of Boston's historic church, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem " Paul Revere's Ride ".
Its original publication included an epigraph which quoted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem " A Psalm of Life ".
The town " Louisburg " is mentioned in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline.
According to tradition, Dumachus was one of a band of robbers who attacked Saint Joseph and the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt as recorded in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Golden Legend.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1842 poem " The Quadroon Girl " has a planter, tempted by the slaver's gold, selling his quadroon daughter to a slaver to be his paramour.
" In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's play Giles Corey of the Salem Farms, Hathorne is shown debating Cotton Mather on the nature of witchcraft and presiding over hearings in which Giles Corey refuses to enter a plea.
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was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha, which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories.
: One if by land, and two if by sea is from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride ".
An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline, which is in dactylic hexameter:
The Courtship of Miles Standish ( 1858 ) was a literary counterpoint to Henry Longfellow's earlier Evangeline ( 1847 ), the tragic tale of a woman whose lover disappears in a colonial war.
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