to the cuckoo wordsworth

« To The Cuckoo W I L L I AM WO RD S WORT H Summery ofthePoem - The poem is an Ode to the Cuckoo bird and spring time - The poet adresses the cuckoo bird and expresses love and devotion - By hearing the cuckoo, the poet is taken back to his childhood - He remembers hearing the cuckoo bird as a child, but never being able to see it - He makes a parallelism between his past and his present by listening to the cuckoo - The poet has yet to find the cuckoo, it is still a mistery to him Rhyme& Rhythm - Eight Stanzas - Four lines each - Rhyme Scheme: ABAB - Odd lines = Iambic Tetrameter - Even lines = Iambic Trimeter. »