Use the excerpt from “Paul’s Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to answer the question. Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffled oar

Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, just as the moon over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The somerset, british man-of-war; …

Which word best describes the tone of the excerpt (1 point)