A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal is probably one of Wordsworth's most prettiest poems. The first line, for example, utilizes sound in a striking way: Alliteration followed by contrast. i.e., while the S sounds are the same, the M and P, B and R are opposites. The sounds radiate and then bounce off one another.
The rythm is balanced tightly, and flows throughout the piece: "Earthly years." There is a richness to the tone. Overall, the poem is not only full of depth but is aesthetically pleasing as well as balanced.
An in-depth analysis:
When analyzing A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, take into consideration the visual placement of each of the words on their given lines. There is symetry and pleasure in their order. The poem is IN PERFORMANCE; even when it is read silently, even though the words are plain and the tone is regulated. In fact, it is the simplicity of the words that generate energy when placed together. i.e. Form = Content. The simplistic ideas create complexity, whereas had Wordsworth embelished on the complexity and said what it is about the piece that is powerful, most of the power would be lost.
Now to discuss rythm. Let's first take a close look at what rythm is, before we attempt to identify it in this poem. Rythm is actually sounds you hear and silences between those sounds. (Yes, the silences actually make most of the impact. We do in fact "hear them".) Just like "rests" in music, silence is as important as sound.
Prominent rythms are categorized and analyzed accoring to their rythmical patterns, such as Iambs. Each Iamb is the passing of a phrase from the unstressed syllable to the stressed one. Spi-rit is one iamb. An Iamb is as well called a poetic foot. There are other common patterns as well, though Iambs are the most commonly used. We use these rythms when we speak. We carry with our words length, metric and meter.
When we say that a poem hass an underlying metric pattern, we are refering to this very thing: The organizational pattern of its overall rythm. A Slum-ber Did My Spi-rit Seal is written in Iambic tetrameter. Its arrangement is Ballad meter and Quatrain. In more colloquial terms, it is 4 3 4 3 footing.
So why did Wordsworth use such a common rythmic form? He wanted to simplify his writing, to make it colloquial and rhetorically accessible to the common folk, and he wanted these people to have the ability to write as well. The ballad meter (Quatrain that goes from tetrameter to trimeter) that he uses is known to be used in folklore, communication to the common people that can reach to everybody. Wordsworth wanted to valorize the middle ages!
Other tools Wordsworth used to be concious of:
Enjambment- when the phrase continues to the next line.
Terminal- approaches the end of the line.
Bleak- an 'almost rythme'
"I" rythme- they don't sound the same but look like they should!
Sign rythmes- They look the same and they rythme. Fears and Years is a good example of this.
That's all for right now: the technical stuff. Next comes the theoretical analysis of the poem. Coming soon!
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Thanks so much for the insight. I'm looking at the poem for a translation class, and I'm pretty rusty on poetic terms. "Iambic tetrameter" is the one I was looking for. I found it here. So thank you!
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