“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a lyric poem written between 1804 and 1807 by William Wordsworth and considered one of Wordsworth’s most famous works. Wordsworth found inspiration to the poem by an event which happened on the 15th of April 1802; he and his sister Dorothy came across a field of flowers, which is called daffodils . William Wordsworth has an intension to use Nature as his weapon of influence. By doing so he brings forward the beauty, comfort and moral strength in the natural world.
The poem consists of four stanzas in which six rhymed verses are represented. William Wordsworth unifies the content by focusing the first three stanzas on the experience he has and the last stanza on the memory of the experience. Nevertheless the poem do not have any anaphora which is unusual compared to William Wordsworth’s other works. We stumble upon the usage of alliteration in the poem for example in the first stanza; the words at the end of verses 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 5 and 6, have identical consonant sounds. In verse 1 the word cloud alliterate with the word crowd in verse 3. Thereafter in verse 2 the word hills alliterate with the word daffodils in verse 4. And in verse 5 the word trees alliterate with the word breeze in verse 6. This form of alliteration continues in the other stanzas. Therefore the poem provides us with information about the poem’s form. The stanzas have the usage of the rhyming couplet and quatrain; A – B – A – B – C – C, in which each line is metered in