Read the first stanza of "the tide rises, the tide falls."
the tide rises, the tide falls,
the twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
along the sea-sands damp and brown
the traveller hastens toward the town,
and the tide rises, the tide falls.
why does the poet most likely use the words "damp and brown" to describe the sands?
to create a subdued mood within the poem
to make the poem more haunting or unsettling
to give a sense of the time of year
to evoke sadness within the reader
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The sand is moist from the tide. This could help build the mood of gloom as well.

Explanation:

to create a subdued mood within the poem

Explanation:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, has created a dim atmosphere. A picture of a pale brownish sunset  on a beach can be pictured in the reader's mind. The sands get damp by the sea and they turn brown. The brown of the sands may  be pictured even browner since the light coming from the sky has  darkened the scene. An ocher picture has been created to set a soft and pale atmosphere.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

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