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Define refrain.Describe the poetic importance of the refrain:'For men may come and men may go/but I go on forever.'

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Refrain is the repeated part of a poem. In the poem Brook, 'For men may come and men may go/but I go on forever' is the refrain. It is important as it emphasises that men or people have a short life span but the brook is immortal and so it has a longer life span. It will go on 'forever'.

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