The rhyming is easy and, overall, the poem reads well. Clearly, the poet wanted to emphasize the beauty of the poem through song but he wanted to keep it simple.
Wordsworth also utilizes several literary devices in the poem. For example, Wordsworth sets the mood and tone of the poem by describing a girl is in a field singing alone. Connotation includes what the lady might be singing about or what caused her to sing in the first place. Another example of connotation occurs with the reaper, the song, and the field. These things are very real and they are significant to the meaning of the poem. Denotation occurs as the poet describes the song as a "melancholy strain" (6) and a "vale profound" (7). The poet also alludes to the Arabian sands" (12) and the Hebrides islands. The poet wonders about both. He asks, "Will no one tell me what she sings?" (17) and he then begins to speculate on her song. Perhaps she could be singing about "old, unhappy, far-off things/and battles long ago" (19-20). It is important to note that the poet does not have to have any of his questions answered in order to appreciate what is before him.
Wordsworth also employs simile, metaphor, apostrophe, allegory, and other devices in "The Solitary Reaper." An example of simile can be seen when the poet speaks of the maiden's song "as if her song could have no ending" (26). The poet also uses a nice metaphor with the comparison of the lady to a nightingale. We also see an example of metonymy with the reaper's song and how it is like a welcome oasis for "weary bands/of travelers" (9-10). An example of apostrophe occurs when the poet breaks the poem with a question he poses to the reader in line 17. Personification takes place when the poet presents us with...
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The remainder of the poem assumes a more regularly rhythmic form, although the meter is not strict. Some of the remaining lines and stanzas follow an iambic hexameter, such as stanza three. However, many of the lines are in anapestic hexameter, or contain combinations of various meters. The poet inserts dactylic and anapestic feet along with iambic and also trochaic ones for intensity and variation, much as one would
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