How would you describe the musical quality of "The Brook" by Alfred Lord Tennyson?

Tennyson's "The Brook" has a musical quality that imitates a flowing stream. The alternating lines rhyme, creating a musical sense, and many of the words that end the lines are repeated, such as "flow" and "go." The repetition of words and rhymes creates the lyrical quality of a brook that is constantly running and that has a repetitive quality in the sound of its water moving downstream. 


In addition, the lines in the poem are...

Tennyson's "The Brook" has a musical quality that imitates a flowing stream. The alternating lines rhyme, creating a musical sense, and many of the words that end the lines are repeated, such as "flow" and "go." The repetition of words and rhymes creates the lyrical quality of a brook that is constantly running and that has a repetitive quality in the sound of its water moving downstream. 


In addition, the lines in the poem are very short, running to three or four syllables rather than to the ten syllables that many of the poems used at the time. This creates the kinds of quickly moving sounds that a brook might make as it tumbles downstream. In addition, many of the lines in the poem use alliteration, or the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words, such as "sudden sally" and "men may." These sounds imitate the rushing sound of water in the brook. 

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