Iwandered lonely as a cloud

Figures of speech
In " I wandered lonely as a cloud", William Wordsworth uses
many figures of speech to make the poem more interesting:
1-Simile : He uses simile, For example, in line1, poet says I
wandered lonely as a cloud , he compares the wandering
of a man to a cloud drifting through the sky.
Another example, in line7, he says Continuous as the
stars that shine , he compares the dancing of daffodils in
the wind to the stars that shine.
Simile: A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike
things using like or as.

2-Metaphor and personification: Wordsworth also uses

metaphors and personifications to imply an inherent unity
between man and nature.
For example, in line3 he uses metaphor " once I saw a
crowd", he compares daffodils to a crowd of people. Also, he
uses personification, for example in line4 " dancing in the
breeze", in line12 "tossing their heads in sprightly dance." And
in line13 " The waves beside them danced He Compares the
movement of daffodils to dance and shows that daffodils are
happy like people.
Personification" A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract
ideas
Metaphor: A comparison between essentially unlike things without an
explicitly comparative word such as like or as.

3-Anastrophe : in line18, Wordsworth uses anastrophe,

writing "the show to me had brought" instead of "the show
brought to me". Anastrophe is an inversion of the normal word
order.

4-Apostrophe: for example, in line3, I saw a crowd. The poet

apostrophizes the daffodils and describes them in their
large number as a crowd of people. Also , in line16, In
such a jocund company The poets addresses the flowers as
human beings and describes them as a happy company of

good friends .

apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction

or personification that is not physically present:

5- Alliteration: for example, in line1 lonely as a cloud. In line3

"When and once "Also, in line5 "Beside and beneath". In
line2 "high and hills"
Alliteration is The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the
beginning of words

6-Hyperbole, for example, in line9, " They stretched in neverending line". These daffodils were situated in a line that
never ends.
A figure of speech involving exaggeration

Form
One of the romantic poems is William Wordsworth's "I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. It is a lyric poem focusing on
the poet's response to the beauty of nature. the rhyme
scheme is ABABCC. The lines in the poem are in iambic
tetrameter. The poem contains four stanzas of six lines each.
In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the third and the
second with the fourth. The stanza then ends with a rhyming
couplet. Wordsworth unifies the content of the poem by
focusing the first three stanzas on the experience at the lake
and the last stanza on the memory of that experience
Themes
There are two themes in the poem
The first is that Nature' s beauty uplifts the human spirit. Lines
.15, 23, and 24 refer to this theme
The second is that People sometimes fail to appreciate nature's
wonders as they go about their daily routines. Lines 17 and 18
.suggest this theme