Paul Revere's Ride Passage Analysis

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In the passage “Paul Revere’s Ride”, the tone of the story is hopeful. Because of the several gloomy things said in the passage many people can be led to believe that the story is grim. The passage has hints of being grim such as talking about the darkness and death. Afterword it would talk about the hopeful things that follow. In the passage it says “Beneat, in the churchyard, lay the dead”. This is later followed by “And seeming to whisper, ‘All is well!’“ providing an example of the transition from grim to hopeful. Another example of this transition would be from “And only pausing to fire and load” to “A cry of defiance and not of fear”. There are several different transitions from grim to hopeful that back up that the passage is hopeful.