e extract from "The Prelude" is written mainly in the first person singular and in the past tense, reminiscing about a happy
             winters day when Wordsworth was a child. Wordsworth wrote this poem in 1798, when he was 28 years old, looking back on his childhood
             which was spent largely among mountains at Hawkshead where he was educated.
             The sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" is written mainly in the third person in the present tense and describes the
             skyline of London from above the Thames and is set early in the morning. Wordsworth never lived in London and was not familiar with the
             bustling city that he was passing through. The sonnet describes the tranquillity of the city before everyone wakes up and goes about their
             usual daily routine. This poem is probably the more accurate of the two poems because Wordsworth could see the view whilst he was
             composing the sonnet, whereas "The Prelude" was written looking back, so some memories could have been forgotten, exaggerated or
             distorted in some way.
             The sonnet is fourteen lines long and all of the lines share the same approximate length of about ten syllables, forming a square
             shape on the page. The extract from "The Prelude" is twenty four lines long and all the lines are also approximately the same length as
             each other. The extract is part of a longer piece, therefore it is incomplete, whereas the sonnet is complete, giving a much fuller and
             therefore clearer picture.
             "The Prelude" is more like a continuous piece of prose, telling a story, with no rhyming couplets or rhyming pattern. "Composed
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