The Comparison and Contrast of I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud & The Prese

I Wandered Lonely as a debase and The Preservation of Flowers two notable metrical compositions, two very different styles of writing. This demonstrate will look at their contrasts and similarities, from relevant formal aspects, to the deeper meanings hidden amid the argumentations. We will look at both writers use of rhyme scheme, legal patterning, word choice, figurative language and punctuation. The essay will also butt against a little on the backgrounds of the writers themselves, and their inspiration, with the intention of gaining a greater appreciation of both texts. The structure and form of both poems is evidently dissimilar. Wordsworths poem retraces a clear rhyme scheme ABABCC and contains four stanzas of six lines each. In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the third, the second with the fourth and the stanza concludes with a riming couplet. Birds sixteen line- narrative verse does not follow any formal rhyme scheme. She describes full rhyme as world too stridentE1 for her personal taste. Choosing instead to use consonance and effective rhymes. Despite this seemingly unconventional style with which the poem is written, it does follow an iambic pentameter, with every line containing five stressed syllables, except line 13 which contains six. Cer-tain cus-to-mers, he slips an ex-tra rose13. This is a very clever play on words, using the term extra rose to mirror the extra syllable in the line. This patently demonstrates Birds astute understanding of structure and form. She explains Theres a poetry joke in there too - each line has five stresses, but the extra rose line has six stresses. An extra rose, an extra stress.E2. This again presents another parallel to Wordsworths lyric, where the meter is not u... ... he has a point. Contrary to this statement however, there remains the reality that without dissection and close analysis, the true up meanings encoded within these two texts, might remain perpetually esoteric.Bibliography. T Furniss & M Bath. 1996. culture Poetry an introduction. Harlow Pearson Education Limited..Preface to Lyrical Ballads, in Wordsworth (1968) Lyrical ballads, pp. 241-72, 246. Organic predisposition refers to the responsiveness of the senses.See The Tables Turned, in Wordsworth (1968) The Lyrical Ballads, pp. 105-6..Internet 1 http//www.enotes.com/william-wordsworth/q-and-a/what-elements-nature-daffodils-poem-144087.Internet 2 http//www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetry/index.asp?pageid=101.Internet 3 http//rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2337.html.Internet4 http//academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html