Question

And clear rills 

That for themselves a cooling covert make 

‘Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, 

Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: 

(a) In which context does the poet mention the rill and brake? 

(b) Pick a a figure of speech in the above lines. 

(c) What is brake? 

(d) What is a rill?

Answer 1

(a) Keats mentions the rill and the brake as two of the many things of beauty that he mentions in the poem. 

(b) Imagery is used in the lines ‘clear rill hot season’. 

(c) Brake is a type of fern. 

(d) Rill is a shallow stream of water.