And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. HELPS TO STUDY. Notes and Questions. These stanzas are part of a longer poem called "The Brook." In this poem Tennyson personifies the brook. Why? In what lines do the words and the rhythm suggest the sound of the brook? Which lines do this most successfully? Point out words that seem to you especially appropriate in giving the thought. Where in the poem do we find a meaning for the following lines: "Oh! of all the songs sung No songs are so sweet As the songs with refrains Which repeat and repeat." How does the repetition of "chatter" influence the melody of the first line in the sixth stanza? How does it affect the thought? Find another place in the poem where an expression is repeated. Was this done for the sake of the rhythm, or the thought, or for both? Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of two or more words in close succession. Find lines in which alliteration is used e. g. "sudden sally," "field and fallow," etc. What does this add to the poem? Indicate the rhythm of the first four lines by placing them in these curves: ________ ________ ________ ________ / \/ \/ \/ \ Words and Phrases for Discussion. "coot and hern" (heron) "bicker" "thorps" "fairy foreland" "willow weed and mallow" "grayling" "water-break" "covers" "brambly" "shingly bars" "eddying" "fallow" "babble" "cresses" "brimming" "sharps and trebles" "skimming swallows" "netted sunbeams" * * * * * SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE SIDNEY LANIER Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the rapid and leap the fall; Split at the rock and together again, Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall. All down the hills of Habersham, All through the valleys of Hall, The rushes cried, "Abide, abide," The wilful water-weeds held me thrall, The laving laurel turned my tide, The ferns and the fondling grass said, "Stay," The dewberry dipped for to work delay, And the little reeds sighed, "Abide, abide," Here in the hills of Habersham, Here in the valleys of Hall. High o'er the hills of Habersham, Veiling the valleys of Hall, The hickory told me manifold Fair tales of shade; the poplar tall Wrought me her shadowy self to hold; The chestnut, the oak, the walnut, the pine, Overleaning, with flickering meaning and sign, Said: "Pass not so cold, these manifold Deep shades of the hills of Habersham, These glades in the valleys of Hall."