With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.
Paraphrase: The brook continues its onward journey flowing in curves and beating against its banks in fury. It flows through many fields and parts of land left uncultivated. The brook flows through those parts of land which extend into the sea and look like lands of fairies. It passes through bushes of willow and plants of mallow growing near its banks.
(a) What is the meaning of the expression ‘my bank I fret?’
(b) What is the figure of speech used in the first line?
(c) What is the poetic device used in the second and the third lines?
(a) The brook beats its bank angrily.
(b) The figure of speech used in the first line is ‘personification’.
(c) ‘Alliteration’ is the poetic device that is used in the second and the third lines.
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