Rhyme Scheme and Type of Rhymes in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Ocean

 The Ocean

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ocean has its silent caves,

Deep, quiet, and alone;

Though there be fury on the waves,

Beneath them there is none.

The awful spirits of the deep

Hold their communion there;

And there are those for who we weep,

The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest

Beneath their own blue sea.

The ocean solitudes are blest,

For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,

Unquiet are its graves;

But peaceful sleep is ever there,

Beneath the dark blue waves.

    The rhyme scheme that is used in The Ocean by Nathaniel Hawthorne is alternate rhyme. Even though the poem has 8 lines in each stanza, the rhyme is A/B/A/B/C/D/C/D which fits the characteristics of alternate rhyme even though mostly poems with alternate rhymes have 4 lines only in each stanza.

As you can see here:

The Ocean has its silent caves, (A)

Deep, quiet, and alone; (B)

Though there be fury on the waves, (A)

Beneath them there is none. (B)

The awful spirits of the deep (C)

Hold their communion there; (D)

And there are those for who we weep, (C)

The young, the bright, the fair. (D)

Calmly the wearied seamen rest (A)

Beneath their own blue sea. (B)

The ocean solitudes are blest, (A)

For there is purity. (B)

The earth has guilt, the earth has care, (C)

Unquiet are its graves; (D)

But peaceful sleep is ever there, (C)

Beneath the dark blue waves. (D)

    The type of rhyme that is used in The Ocean is masculine rhyme. The words underlined below are the masculine-rhymed words in the poems:

The Ocean has its silent caves,

Deep, quiet, and alone;

Though there be fury on the waves,

Beneath them there is none.

The awful spirits of the deep

Hold their communion there;

And there are those for who we weep,

The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest

Beneath their own blue sea.

The ocean solitudes are blest,

For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,

Unquiet are its graves;

But peaceful sleep is ever there,

Beneath the dark blue waves.

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Figurative Languages in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Ocean

 The Ocean

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ocean has its silent caves,

Deep, quiet, and alone;

Though there be fury on the waves,

Beneath them there is none.

The awful spirits of the deep

Hold their communion there;

And there are those for who we weep,

The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest

Beneath their own blue sea.

The ocean solitudes are blest,

For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,

Unquiet are its graves;

But peaceful sleep is ever there,

Beneath the dark blue waves.

Figurative languages found in the poem above are:

1. Personification

The personification figurative language here are:

- 'The Ocean'. The author gave almost a conscience to it by making it the only word that is capitalized in the poem as if it's 'alive' and able to do things; have its silent caves.

- 'The awful spirits of the deep' here is described to hold their communion there, which is a personification where it means deep in the sea, there are many things happening, many creatures, almost like they have their own communion.

- 'The earth has guilt, the earth has care' is a personification that means the earth has its own good and bad side. The earth or the surface of the ocean is where humans experience their lives and emotions.

2. Metaphor

- Though there be fury on the waves,

Beneath them there is none.

The couplet above are a metaphor of beneath a chaotic surface, there is serenity and peace.

- But peaceful sleep is ever there,

Beneath the dark blue waves.

The couplet above are a metaphor of silence and peace in the deep of the sea, for those who we weep (in the previous stanza).

3. Euphemism

- Calmly the wearied seamen rest

Beneath their own blue sea.

The couplet above is an example of euphemism, where "the seamen rest beneath their own blue sea" actually means people who died in the sea.

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Unsur-unsur Puisi dalam The Dove karya John Keats

 The Dove

John Keats


I had a dove, and the sweet dove died,

And I have thought it died of grieving;

O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied

With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;

Sweet little red feet! Why would you die?

Why would you leave me, sweet bird, why?

You liv'd alone on the forest tree,

Why, pretty thing, could you not live with me?

I kiss'd you oft, and gave you white peas;

Why not live sweetly as in the green trees?

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• Bunyi

          Bunyi dalam puisi erat kaitannya dengan rima atau irama yang merupakan persamaan bunyi pada puisi, umumnya di akhir baris. Dalam The Dove karya John Keats, rima yang digunakan adalah: A/B/A/B, C/C, D/D, E/E, sebagai berikut:

I had a dove, and the sweet dove died, (A)

And I have thought it died of grieving; (B)

O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied (A)

With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving; (B)

Sweet little red feet! Why would you die? (C)

Why would you leave me, sweet bird, why? (C)

You liv'd alone on the forest tree, (D)

Why, pretty thing, could you not live with me? (D)

I kiss'd you oft, and gave you white peas; (E)

Why not live sweetly as in the green trees? (E)

• Diksi

          Diksi atau pilihan kata merupakan hal yang umum ada di puisi-puisi, demi menunjukkan keindahan dan ketinggian bahasa yang digunakan, sebagai media penulis mengekspresikan apa yang ingin disampaikannya melalui puisi tersebut. Contoh diksi yang digunakan dalam puisi The Dove adalah:

I had a dove, and the sweet dove died,

And I have thought it died of grieving;

O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied

With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;

    Baris "I had a dove, and the sweet dove died." mewakilkan sesuatu yang berharga. Karena penyair menggunakan makhluk hidup sebagai metafora, maka dapat diartikan 'the dove' yang dimaksud adalah seseorang. Ia memiliki seseorang, namun lalu orang itu pergi meninggalkannya.

    Selanjutnya adalah "Its feet were tied" dan "With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;". Dua hal ini melambangkan cinta yang egois dari sang penyair. Ia pikir 'tying its feet' adalah sebuah bentuk pengungkapan cinta, namun nyatanya hal itu hanya merugikan kekasihnya, dan itu alasannya kekasihnya tersebut pergi.

I kiss'd you oft, and gave you white peas;

Why not live sweetly as in the green trees?

    Selanjutnya, dengan baris "I kiss'd you oft, and gave you white peas;", ia kira ia sudah memberikan segalanya untuk kekasihnya itu, namun ia tetap pergi. Lalu "Why not live sweetly as in the green trees?" menggambarkan pertanyaan penyair yang terkesan bingung mengapa kekasihnya pergi setelah semua yang ia lakukan untuknya.

• Citra

          Citra adalah gambaran atau imaji yang penyair ingin pembacanya rasakan. Ada enam macam citra sesuai dengan indera kita, yaitu citraan penglihatan, citraan pendengaran, citraan rabaan, citraan pengecapan, citraan penciuman, serta citraan gerak.

          Citraan dalam puisi ini antara lain:

...Its feet were tied

With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;

menunjukkan citraan rabaan (tied) dan gerak (thread of my own hand's weaving)

I kiss'd you oft, and gave you white peas;

menunjukkan citraan rabaan (kiss'd you oft) dan citraan gerak (gave you white peas)

• Bentuk

          Bentuk dalam puisi adalah tampilan visual dari puisi tersebut. Letak baris, bait, dan sebagainya. Umumnya bait terdiri dari empat baris yang berima. Namun, dalam puisi ini penyair menyatukan semua baris, menjadikannya satu kesatuan bait panjang, dan hanya memakai rima A/B/A/B pada bagian awal puisi saja, selebihnya rima dipakai di setiap dua baris.

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News Plagiarism

 What is plagiarism?

Well, basically, plagiarism means recreating something similar that has existed earlier without permission, and without giving credits to the original owner. Almost any art or writings could be plagiarized. Starting from stories, movies, music, or even news.

For the past few years, the news industry has been evolving really fast, thanks to technological advances which also evolve rapidly. The rapid information traffic then requires companies to work faster, including in producing news. They have to serve fresh news every day in order to stay in lane. But what happens if a journalist is not capable of gathering information on their own? One of the answers is plagiarism.

Every journalist, or at least every news portal, has their own style, has their own way of producing news. There is a vast amount of news companies in Indonesia, and it is really possible for them to serve the same news. But then again, they must have their own originality of writing them. There might be not many news companies if there's no one who reads the news. The readers are the reason why they compete to write the best version of news. And thanks to this, plagiarism can be quickly discovered.

In every country, there is a law that regulates copyrighting. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, copyright means "the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (such as literary, musical, or artistic work)". In our country, the same law is also applied to make sure the works of creators are safe from being plagiarized, and even if it happens, the right law and regulation is available. It is officially written in Undang-undang Republik Indonesia no. 28 Tahun 2014 Tentang Hak Cipta, which says:

1. Setiap Orang yang dengan tanpa hak melakukan pelanggaran hak ekonomi sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 9 ayat (1) huruf i untuk Penggunaan Secara Komersial dipidana dengan pidana penjara paling lama 1 (satu) tahun dan/atau pidana denda paling banyak Rp100.000.000 (seratus juta rupiah).2
2. Setiap Orang yang dengan tanpa hak dan/atau tanpa izin Pencipta atau pemegang Hak Cipta melakukan pelanggaran hak ekonomi Pencipta sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 9 ayat (1) huruf c, huruf d, huruf f, dan/atau huruf h untuk Penggunaan Secara Komersial dipidana dengan pidana penjara paling lama 3 (tiga) tahun dan/atau pidana denda paling banyak Rp500.000.000,00 (lima ratus juta rupiah).
3. Setiap Orang yang dengan tanpa hak dan/atau tanpa izin Pencipta atau pemegang Hak Cipta melakukan pelanggaran hak ekonomi Pencipta sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 9 ayat (1) huruf a, huruf b, huruf e, dan/atau huruf g untuk Penggunaan Secara Komersial dipidana dengan pidana penjara paling lama 4 (empat) tahun dan/atau pidana denda paling banyak Rp1.000.000.000,00 (satu miliar rupiah).
4. Setiap Orang yang memenuhi unsur sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (3) yang dilakukan dalam bentuk pembajakan, dipidana dengan pidana penjara paling lama 10 (sepuluh) tahun dan/atau pidana denda paling banyak Rp4.000.000.000,00 (empat miliar rupiah).

Pasal 8

Hak ekonomi merupakan hak eksklusif Pencipta atau Pemegang Hak Cipta untuk mendapatkan manfaat ekonomi atas Ciptaan.

Pasal 9

1. Pencipta atau Pemegang Hak Cipta sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 8 memiliki hak ekonomi untuk melakukan:

a. Penerbitan ciptaan;

b. Penggandaan Ciptaan dalam segala bentuknya;

c. Penerjemahan Ciptaan;

d. Pengadaptasian, pengaransemenan, atau pertransformasian Ciptaan;

e. Pendistribusian Ciptaan atau salinannya;

f. Pertunjukan Ciptaan;

g. Pengumuman Ciptaan;

h. Komunikasi Ciptaan; dan

i. Penyewaan Ciptaan

2. Setiap Orang yang melaksanakan hak ekonomi sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (1) wajib mendapatkan izin Pencipta atau Pemegang Hak Cipta.

3. Setiap Orang yang tanpa izin Pencipta atau Pemegang Hak Cipta dilarang melakukan penggandaan dan/atau Penggunaan Secara Komersial Ciptaan.

Pasal 52

Setiap Orang dilarang merusak, memusnahkan, menghilangkan, atau membuat tidak berfungsi sarana kontrol teknologi yang digunakan sebagai pelindung Ciptaan atau produk Hak Terkait serta pengaman Hak Cipta atau Hak Terkait, kecuali untuk kepentingan pertahanan dan keamanan negara, serta sebab lain sesuai dengan ketentuan peraturan perundang-undangan, atau diperjanjikan lain.

source: https://kbbi.kemdikbud.go.id/Beranda/Hukum

And that's that, not only journalists, but all of us, before we recreate something, we better do a thorough research whether our creation can be considered as a plagiarism or not, so that later on we don't have to deal with copyright law.

I think that would be all for today's post. Thank you for stopping by, have a good day! :)