Tight
taut rigid
stretched tight
stressed not slack
tightly stretched tense
stiff snug
contracted tightened
drawn strained
strung out tightly drawn
firm tensed
The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABCB.
A: wind. B: northeast. C: brine. B: yeast.
Only the second and the last line rhyme.
Answer:
Like the captain and the cook, the correspondent ultimately survives his time at sea and is rescued by the life-saving man. His experience leaves him feeling that he can now interpret the voice of the sea, which, in its indifference toward human life, makes “absurdly clear” the difference between right and wrong.
