Literary Analysis: Paul Revere's Ride In the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, describes the night that Paul Revere ( A silversmith and an American patriot ) rode to every middlesex and farm to warn the American leaders that british soldiers were on their way to arrest them and seize their weapons. The poem then goes on and describes that night, but due to historical research, it is found that this poem is not exactly accurate to the night that this historical event occurred as it is described in the poem and also leaves out some other important events that occurred the same night. The poem was not written just to make him a national hero, but also for other reasons. In the historical research done