extract from the prelude

• "One summer evening (led by her)"
• "Straight I unloosed her chain"
• "It was an act of stealth

  And troubled pleasure"
• present participles - "leaving", "glittering", "sparkling" -> climax of positivity
• "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point"
• "The horizon's utmost boundary; far above

  Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky"
• "She was an elfin pinnace"
• "craggy steep"
• "huge peak, black and huge"
• "As if with voluntary power instinct,

  Upreared its head. I struck..."
• "I struck and struck again"
• "Towered up between me and the stars"
• "And measured motion like a living thing,

  Strode after me. With trembling oars I turned"
• "Stole my way"
• "Back to the covert of the willow tree"
• "for many days, my brain

  Worked with a dim and undetermined sense"
• "O'er my thoughts

  There hung a darkness, call it solitude"
• "were a trouble to my dreams"
• Purpose

  • around the romantic era - against urbanisation
  • no regular rhyme scheme - blank verse
  • iambic pentameter - complicated, hard to define
  • 1st person narrative - more personal
  • one long verse