What is the rhyme scheme of crossing the bar?

Answer 1

This poem is refering to death and crossing over to the other side. Tennyson describes how he wants to leave in a peaceful way. He hopes people do not mourn his death. He uses the sea as a metaphor for death and the waves and the nature of the sea as how you go. He wants the sea to be at peace while he crosses. He wants to be face to face with his "pilot" that led him on this voyage. The pilot in this case is God.

Answer 2

Tennyson wrote Crossing the Bar when he was an old man, and facing death.

Tennyson uses the metaphor of a sand bar to describe the barrier between life and death.

A sand bar is a ridge of sand built up by currents along a shore.

In order to reach the shore, the waves must crash against the sandbar, creating a sound that Tennyson describes as the "moaning of the bar."

Quoted from: http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/tennyson/section10.rhtml

Answer 3

Crossing the Bar by Lord Tennyson is about death. It is about the unstoppable passage of time and saying goodbye.

Answer 4

rhyme scheme is used in it. the pattern is abcccb...

Answer 5

The poem "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson has an ABAB rhyme scheme in each quatrain. The final stanza has a different rhyme scheme, AABB.