Beach Burial

here as in many other poems, the poet uses sounds to convey the feeling of the scene he is describing. He evokes the rhythmic motion of the saliors floating in the water by the repetion of the sounds 'ly' in softly and humbly. the repetition of the letter 's' thoughout the first stanza suggests movement of the bodies in the bb and the flow of the sea. The contrast in sound evoked bu 'gulf of Arabs' reminds us sharply that the sau...