The Works of Wordsworth and Coleridge

nces and love of nature to reconcile the man made city with the natural environment – creating his individual experience of London's city in the morning, and sharing it with us.
             Wordsworth does not convey meaning through 'spelling out the obvious'. Instead, he creates his vision through effective use of figurative language and poetic devices. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge is an Italian sonnet, a single stanza poem containing 14 lines with the set rhyme scheme of abba abba, cdc dcd. Many lines in the poem end with masculine rhyme – rhyme that end on a stress, for example, bare, air, hill, will, still. The stress in the rhyme emphasizes the meaning and argument – nothing is more 'fair'; 'silent, bare'; the 'smokeless air'; 'calm so deep' and 'houses are asleep' – rhyme is assisting us to build this picture of the silent city of London in the morning that Wordsworth is experiencing.
             The meter of Composed Upon Westminster Bridge is written in Iambic Pentameter – when an unstressed syllable occurs, followed by a stressed one – this being the traditional meter of a sonnet. Wordsworth has placed stressed syllables throughout the poem and he is clearly using meter to manipulate the reader to see what he wants them to see. He is directing the eyes and the ears of the reader to the emphasized words so they can picture the vision he is trying to create. Let me use the example from the last line in the poem. The final stressed word, 'still' is the last word dramatically, rhythmically and structurally. The emphasis of the last word draws the readers attention to the fact that many phrases/words throughout the poem relate back to the word 'still' – 'silent bare; temples lie; smokeless air; calm so deep; sleep&
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