Sunday Dip

• Clare is a Romantic poet - the past, nature
• Clare grew up in a rural village - simplicity of rural life
• 16 lines = sonnet - love poem to nature
• 8 rhyming couplets - uninterrupted summer scene
• "seek" , "run" , "wade" , "dance"
• Repetition of "and"
• " laugh to hear the thunder in their ears "
• " beneath the willow trees "