Poem Study: The Brook

Let’s read a poem and study it together!

Not sure how to study a poem? Here are some ideas! Choose one or all of these:

1. Read aloud and enjoy the poem
2. Neatly write out your favorite stanza for handwriting practice or…
3. Copy and paste the poem into your word processor and print it out
4. Draw a picture about the poem
5. Circle or color-code the words that rhyme. (Learn about rhyme here!)
6. Read more about the author’s life
7. Share with someone you love <3

The Brook
(excerpt)

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river;
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeams dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses.

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.

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

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