The Brook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GGGG HEHE EFEF IJIJ KLKL EFEF GGGG GGGG GGGG EFEF| I come from haunts of coot and hern | A |
| I make a sudden sally | B |
| And sparkle out among the fern | A |
| To bicker down a valley | B |
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| By thirty hills I hurry down | C |
| Or slip between the ridges | D |
| By twenty thorpes a little town | C |
| And half a hundred bridges | D |
| - | |
| Till last by Philip's farm I flow | E |
| To join the brimming river | F |
| For men may come and men may go | E |
| But I go on for ever | F |
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| I chatter over stony ways | G |
| In little sharps and trebles | G |
| I bubble into eddying bays | G |
| I babble on the pebbles | G |
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| With many a curve my banks I fret | H |
| By many a field and fallow | E |
| And many a fairy foreland set | H |
| With willow weed and mallow | E |
| - | |
| I chatter chatter as I flow | E |
| To join the brimming river | F |
| For men may come and men may go | E |
| But I go on for ever | F |
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| I wind about and in and out | I |
| With here a blossom sailing | J |
| And here and there a lusty trout | I |
| And here and there a grayling | J |
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| And here and there a foamy flake | K |
| Upon me as I travel | L |
| With many a silvery waterbreak | K |
| Above the golden gravel | L |
| - | |
| And draw them all along and flow | E |
| To join the brimming river | F |
| For men may come and men may go | E |
| But I go on for ever | F |
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| I steal by lawns and grassy plots | G |
| I slide by hazel covers | G |
| I move the sweet forget me nots | G |
| That grow for happy lovers | G |
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| I slip I slide I gloom I glance | G |
| Among my skimming swallows | G |
| I make the netted sunbeam dance | G |
| Against my sandy shallows | G |
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| I murmur under moon and stars | G |
| In brambly wildernesses | G |
| I linger by my shingly bars | G |
| I loiter round my cresses | G |
| - | |
| And out again I curve and flow | E |
| To join the brimming river | F |
| For men may come and men may go | E |
| But I go on for ever | F |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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