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01/02/2021 6:10 pm
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By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
Paraphrase: The river hurries down through thirty hills. It slips quickly unnoticed between the mountain ranges.
(a) What is the poetic device used in ‘twenty … town?
(b) Explain: ‘By twenty thorpses”.
(c) What is the movement of the brook in these lines?
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01/02/2021 6:11 pm
(a) ‘Alliteration’ is used as a poetic device in these lines.
(b) The brook flows through twenty small villages or hamlets.
(c) These lines present the fast movement of the brook.