The metrical rhythm is the same in each stanza. The poem comprises six quatrains, that is stanzas of four lines each. Wordsworth and other Romantics wrote primarily to try and take back the world from the brink. At the time the French Revolution was raging and, in Britain, observers were stunned by the cruelty of French society. The beauty around him is in contrast to the miseries humans suffer.

In this poem the unnamed narrator relaxes beneath a tree in the wilderness, and thinks about recent societal changes. At the same time the language should be compelling and ordinary things presented as extraordinary. The principal object of the collection was to portray situations from common life, and to relate them in easily-understood language. This poem appears in a collection published in 1802 entltled Lyrical Ballads. The Romantics were also Pantheists, that is they believed that God was manifested in nature. It should be noted that life in the late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King George III, known - ironically given the terrible social conditions of the time - as the Romantic Era. This was a subject of particular interest to Wordsworth. A tenet of Romantic poetry is its focus on nature and man’s insignificance in comparison to the natural world. Wordsworth was one of the ‘big six’ Romantic Poets (Shelley, Keats, Coleridge and Byron.

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