"It is as if 100 elephants were pushing down on the point of a pencil, if one could find a pencil capable of holding all those elephants." (paragraph 15)
What is the effect of this image on the meaning of the passage?

What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from longfellow's, "the tide rises, the tide falls? " (10 points) the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls; along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveler hastens toward the town, and the tide rises, the tide falls.