James was standing on a river bridge overlooking waves as they broke onto shore. He wanted to see how long it would take a tennis ball to reach the shore if he threw one in on one side of the bridge and watched it flow under and out the other side. Why wouldn't this plan work?

What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from longfellow's, "the tide rises, the tide falls? " (10 points) the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls; along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveler hastens toward the town, and the tide rises, the tide falls.