This sonnet conveys some of the emotions felt by William Wordsworth while crossing
Westminster Bridge on an early September morning 1802. It is an Italian sonnet, written in iambic
pentameter, the rhyme scheme of the poem is
abbaabbacdcdcd.
Sonnets were traditionally the way love poems were written, so it could be claimed that this is a love poem to the city of London in the morning.
Sonnets were traditionally the way love poems were written, so it could be claimed that this is a love poem to the city of London in the morning.
Earth
has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could
pass by
A sight so touching in its
majesty:
This City now doth, like a
garment, wear
Ships, towers, domes, theatres,
and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the
sky;
All bright and glittering in the
smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley,
rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so
deep!
The
river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
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