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  By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. (i) The brook passes by ......................... (ii) How is the journey of the brook similar to that of man? (iii) The    number    words    symbolise or (i) What is the brook's movement like? (ii) What do the words 'thirty hills' and 'twenty thorpes' suggest? (iii) What poetic device does the poet use in the first line?                    

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                  (i) hills and bridges, ridges and villages, towns and lands. (ii) It starts with a shrill sound and passes through difficulties. (iii) the length of the journey. or (i) The movement of the brook appears to be steady. (ii) The words suggest the long and continuous journey of the brook. (iii) Personification has been used here.