ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth’s Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 features a speaker looking at London just as the sun rises. In the still of the morning, the city sleeps, and the wonders of nature are temporarily highlighted. The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, written in loose iambic pentameter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Structure and Rhyme Scheme "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” by Wordsworth consists of fourteen lines with the rhyme scheme of ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, CD. It is written with the iambic Pentameter, and is an Italian Sonnet. “LXXV” by Shakespeare consists of fourteen lines with the rhyme scheme of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.

Detailed explanation-4: -The theme is natural beauty, and the tone is reverent and somewhat celebratory of the beauty of nature. The mood could be described as amazement, serenity or wonder. This is a hyperbole used by the poet to show exactly how incredibly ‘fair’ the sight before him is.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Petrarchan sonnet, perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.