Poem Paraphrase Practice for TN X Standard English -1

Poem paraphrase carries five marks. It is necessary to go through the given poetic lines and understand it completely. It is also important that you have to read the given paraphrase and to guess the answers.


Now try this.

Paraphrase Exercise - 1

The Brook - Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,

And half a hundred bridges.

Poem Paraphrase Practice for TN X Standard English -1

Poem Paraphrase

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The Brook - Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

The brook starts from the place where congregate. The brook in the hilly area. It the ferns (a flowerless plant which has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds), and sparkles when the the crystal clear water. And when the brook moves it creates a lot of noise. The brook is flowing by thirty hills, slipping between ridges (long narrow hills), villages, a little town and fifty bridges.