Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems

The Tide Rises the tide falls

what line get repeated in the poem? How does the repetition help express the poems theme?

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The repetitive line is found in the poem's title, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. This line expresses the indifference of nature to the life and death of humanity..... humanity has no effect of the continuity of the tide.

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The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls