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What are the various words the poet uses to describe the sound of the brook? How does it contribute to the effect of the poem?
Tennyson uses onomatopoeic language throughout the poem to mimic the sound of the brook. In the first stanza, the brook is described as "sparkl(ing)" and "bicker(ing)." The repetition of the "k"...
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Extract and explain the following excerpt from Tennyson's "The Brook": "I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, / Among my skimming swallows; / I make the netted sunbeam dance / Against my sandy swallows."
"The Brook" describes the eponymous brook's journey through different landscapes, and the poem is narrated by the brook itself. The given quotation comprises the eleventh stanza. The first line...
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What are the words which tell how the brook sounded on different parts of its journey?
In stanza one, the tinkling sound of the brook is onomatopoeically implied by the sibilance of the words "sudden sally . . . sparkle." In the last line of the same stanza, the brook is described as...
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How many villages does the brook cross while flowing?
The answer to your question lies in the second verse of the poem: By thirty hills I hurry down,Or slip between the ridges,By twenty thorpes, a little town,And half a hundred bridges. You've...
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Who is the "I" in "The Brook" and what does he do throughout the poem?
The "I" in the poem is the eponymous brook. In other words, the poem is narrated by the imagined voice of the brook. A brook is a small stream. Throughout the poem, the brook describes its journey...
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Why would the coots and the herns make the brook their haunt in Tennyson's poem?
Coots are small water birds with large webbed feet. A brook would therefore be its natural habitat. Unfortunately for coots, they're also quite popular birds to hunt. In "The Brook" Tennyson uses...
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What are the different ways in which sunlight and moonlight affect the brook?
In Tennyson's "The Brook," the brook endures forever and ever. In the sunlight, it "sparkles out," meaning it glints brightly in the sunshine when it is not in the shadow of the ferns. The brook...
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What effect does the poet strive to achieve by the use of alliteration in the third stanza of "The Brook"?
"The Brook" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson reveals various literary devices including alliteration, all of which contribute to its purpose. The poem expresses the benefits of perseverance and offers its...
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What is the rhyme scheme in 'The Brook' by Alfred Lord Tennyson?
This poem has a pretty regular rhyme scheme and rhythm. The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, ghgh, etc., throughout the work. It is written in a regular rhythm of iambic feet (unaccented followed...
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What is the refrain of the poem "The Brook" by Lord Tennyson?
Used frequently in music, a refrain is a repeated line or two that is often called a chorus. In lyrical poetry a refrain serves the purpose of lending musicality and emphasizing an idea. The...
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What do you think is the effect of the poet's use of personification?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson makes great use of personification in his poem “The Brook.” Personification is giving human qualities to inanimate objects. In Tennyson’s poem, he uses personification to...
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In "The Brook" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, how does the brook lose its identity?
I would actually encourage you to see the poem as presenting the opposite idea: that the brook in this poem maintains its identity, asserting itself again and again as something permanent: "For men...
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How does the brook behave when it encounters curves on its banks?
Tennyson's poem "The Brook" is written from the perspective of an indefatigable brook which goes on "for ever" regardless of what it encounters on its travels. The speaker, the personified brook,...
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How would you describe the musical quality of "The Brook" by Alfred Lord Tennyson?
Tennyson's "The Brook" has a musical quality that imitates a flowing stream. The alternating lines rhyme, creating a musical sense, and many of the words that end the lines are repeated, such as...
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What is the form of "The Brook"?
The meter of this poem, known as common meter or ballad meter, was actually very frequently used in ballads, hymns, and poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Contra the second paragrap

Answer 2

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He said that he would lie down across the brook.