The title object of this poem is mentioned twice: once in the last line and once in the first, where the speaker hopes it will not moan, but that there will be "such a tide as moving seems asleep.
The title object of this poem is mentioned twice: once in the last line and once in the first, where the speaker hopes it will not moan, but that there will be "such a tide as moving seems asleep." The poem's four stanzas alternate iambic pentameters with trimeters except the last line of the third and the first lines of the first and third stanzas, which are respectively "when I embark," "twilight and evening bell" and "sunset and evening star." The speaker hopes that he will see his pilot face to face after completing the title action, which serves as a nautical expression for leaving harbor. FTP, name this poem that, at its author's request, is published last in many collections of the work of Tennyson.
The title object of this poem is mentioned twice: once in the last line and once in the first, where the speaker hopes it will not moan, but that there will be "such a tide as moving seems asleep.
"Crossing the Bar"