Words are Worth Much
I decided to write on the poem "The World is Too Much with us" by William Wordsworth because I enjoyed this poem. The poem is an Italian sonnet (a sonnet is a "little song" consisting of fourteen lines), which is a poem that has two parts; the first eight lines form an octave in abbaabba form. The next six lines form a sestet in the pattern of cdcdcd. However, as affirmed in the book, William Wordsworth forms his break between the octave and the sestet within line nine instead of between the lines of 8 and 9. This goes to show that some poets become impatient with the…
