Which of the following lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Brook" demonstrates consonance?

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With many a silver water-break/Above the golden gravel,

And sparkle out among the fern/To bicker down a valley.

And here and there a foamy flake/Upon me, as I travel

I steal by lawns and grassy plots/I slide by hazel covers;

Answer 1

Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity within a line or phrase. In Tennyson's "The Brook," the line that demonstrates consonance is:

"I steal by lawns and grassy plots/I slide by hazel covers;"

In this line, the repeated "s" sound in "steal," "slide," and "plots," as well as "hazel," creates the effect of consonance.