Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Hype a Hero

Poet Longellow chose to write
A poem about Paul Revere
Some 40 years after that night
Paul's ride that history would hear.
But not of Dawes or of Prescott,
Or of Bissell and Ludington
Who also made such rides and brought
Warnings to spark Revolution.
Perhaps because Revere's name flowed
Poetic and with ease of rhyme,
That he's the one who got bestowed
As hero rider for all time.

Heroes are oft determined when
They get the benefit of pen.