The Brook

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The Brook

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Dominant: NONENONE

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Line-groups or stanzas:	1
Poetic lines:	2
Speeches (verse drama):	0
Length in words:	13
Average word length:	3.54
End rhymes:	0
Masculine rhymes:	0
Feminine rhymes:	0
Dactylic rhymes:	0
Half rhymes:	0
Eye rhymes:	0
Identical rhymes:	0
Syllabic rhymes:	0
Cross-stanza rhymes:	0
Internal rhyme:	0
Anaphora:	2
Epistrophe:	0
Refrain:	0
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Page image: englishillustrated_023_466_istealbylawnsandgrassyplots.jpg

“ I steal by lawns and grassy plots,1

I slide by hazel covers.”2

Tennyson — The Brook.

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The Brook

Poet(s)

Tennyson, Alfred

Credits

Illustrator

Macgregor, Barrington

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DVPP Project Team

Source

The English Illustrated Magazine 23:203, 466, August 1900.

First line

I steal by lawns and grassy plots

Notes and attribution research

Illustration accompanies an excerpt from The Brook by Alfred Tennyson, presented here as a complete poem. Poem signed Tennyson. (BGL)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 19709

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