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i. Alliteration – the sound of ‘f is repeated in ‘foamy’ and ‘flake’ for a better poetic effect.

ii. 1. Antithesis: two words it opposite meaning ‘come’ and ‘go’ are used in the same line for a better poetic effect.

2. Repetition: the word ‘men’ is repeated for a better poetic effect.

iii. Personification – sunbeam is given the human quality of ‘dancing’.

i. Repetition – the word ‘chatter’ is repeated for a poetic effect.

ii. Antithesis – two opposite words ‘in’ and ‘out’ are used in the same line for a better poetic effect.

iii. Antithesis – two words of opposite meaning ‘here’ and ‘there’ are used in the same line for poetic effect.

i. Inversion: the prose order has been changed. The correct word order is ’I hurry down by thirty hills’. Alliteration: the sound of ‘h’ repeated in hills and hurry for poetic effect.

ii. Hyperbole – the statement is exaggerated for a poetic effect.

iii. Alliteration – the sound of ’f is repeated in ’farm’ and ’flow’ for a better poetic effect and also the word Philip as it has an ’f sound.

i. Personification – the brook has been given the human quality of ’chattering’.

ii. Inversion – the word order has been changed. The correct word order is T fret my banks with many a curve’.

iii. Alliteration – the sound of ‘w’ is repeated in the world ‘with’, ‘willow’ and ‘weed’.

i. Alliteration – the sound of ’h’ is repeated in ’haunts’ and ’hern’ in a pleasant manner.

ii. Alliteration – the sound of ’s’ is repeated in ’sudden’ and ’sally’ for a better poetic effect.

iii. Personification – the brook has been given the human quality of ’bickering’.

1. By twenty thorpes, a little town An half a hundred bridges. 

2. By thirty hills I hurry down, or slip between the ridges. 

3. I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows.

The bank frets because the brook changes its shape quite often by curving.

many a curve, many a fairy foreland, many a silvery water break.

The poet mentions fishes such as trout and grayling and also the swallow bird.

The brook mentions exact numbers to maintain the rhythm of the poem. It actually means that it flows past several hills, villages and bridges.

The chattering sound of the brook seems like musical sounds.

The sun, stars, clouds, moon, wind, space are things in nature that can say the given lines.

The lines ‘For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever’ are repeated. They mean that nature is immortal whereas we are mortal. Men are born and will die but nature is eternal.

The brook is the speaker in this poem.

from, among, to, in, with, etc.

The brook flows past the dwellings of coot and hern, the ferns, a town, villages, valleys, hills, ridges, several bridges and Philip’s farm.

The brook joins the river near Philip’s farm.

The extract mentions many words of movement such as travel, go, slip, slide, flow sail, loiter.

1. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance. Sound of ‘s’ and ‘g’ is repeated.

2. I bubble into eddying bays. I babble on the pebble. Sound of ‘b’ is repeated.

3. By many a field and fallow. Sound of ’f’ is repeated.

The mood/tone of the poem is cheerful as it traces the journey of a happy brook right from its origin to its mouth. There is a hint of music in lines that helps us visualize the flow of the brook.

i. I wind about, and in and out.

ii. Rhyme scheme – abab.

Autobiography of a Brook

I took origin among the mountains and glaciers in the lap of a slopy snowy terrain as a bubbly ever youthful brook. Many others joined me making me look bigger. I express my happiness by dancing and jumping as I flow down the valley. I am ever so glad to help birds and animals to quench their thirst. The trees in the valley are so grateful to me that they honour me by showering flowers upon me.

As I reach the plains, I slow down. My calm within and outside, inspires many great poets to offer their literary best. I am obstructed by many boulders, but I do not stop. I find my way by flowing around them. By the time I meet the big river, many small rivulets have formed from me. But now, their number is decreasing,.

I hear that the rains are often scanty. If this goes on, I might not exist at all in the future. I have served mankind for as long as I know. I plead with you all to plant more trees and preserve and protect nature for our mutual well being. Help us to survive and continue to serve you.