This document provides an analysis of the William Wordsworth poem "Lines Written in March". It summarizes that the poem describes the beauty of nature after winter, with all living and non-living things welcoming the spring season as winter withdraws. The analysis notes that the poem uses visual imagery and personification to depict the bright morning in the village and the happiness of the people and cattle as winter ends and signs of spring emerge, bringing a season of fortune.

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10. Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The plough boy is whooping –anon-
anon;
There’s joy in the mountains;
There’s life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone.

12. PRESENT PAST PAST
PARTICIPLE
Flow Flowed Flowed
Work Worked Worked
Defeat Defeated Defeated

13. SINGULAR PLURAL
Bird Birds
Cattle Cattle
Boy Boys
Cloud Clouds

14. CROWING FLOWING
TWITTER GLITTER
YOUNGEST STRONGEST
GRAZING RAISING
DEFEATED RETREATED
FARE ILL BARE HILL
SAILING PREVAILING

15. William Wordsworth is one of the greatest English
poets. In the poem, “LinesWritten in March” the
poet clearly describes the tranquil beauty of
nature after the winter.The poem presents the
intense happiness of the creatures of the
withdrawal of the winter season. Each and every
living and nonliving things are ready to welcome
spring with the people of that village.
At the outset of the poem describes the
bright morning of a village.The poet uses of all
visual images to glorify the beauty of that
morning, such as birds, glittering of lake etc.

16. People are very eager to do hard work in their fields.
The cattle graze in the meadows. All this happiness is
the result of the withdrawal of the winter season.
The winter is the worst time of the year.The snow
has just gone. A little snow remains at mountain tops.
Sky seems so beautiful with the sailing clouds. All of
these are the signs of a bright spring, the season of
fortune and prosperity.
The poetic device used in this poem was
personification. For example, in the line "The green
field sleeps in the sun, " he is saying that the fields are
sleeping, but fields are nonliving things and cannot
really sleep. Also in one line of the poem a similie was
used.This poem also uses rhyme.