I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

This poem had a pretty normal and identifiable rhyme scheme, it went A B A B C C. This kept it at a pleasant pace floating and flying over and through clouds and mountains and whatnot. This fits the poem very well as the sound ended up being very lofty and the poem itself is using symbols like waves and mountains and stars, all things that are large and high in the air. This poem is about being a poet and the stanzas stay true to a traditional format, there are no surprises on the way this poem is setup and this reflects an original and standard meaning of poetry.

The theme of this poem is natures elements and wonders, clouds and stars, waves and flowers, all things that make us stand back and admire the power and beauty of nature. Clouds move on their own over many things that live together like fields of flowers and the incredible amount of stars that make up the milky way, the poet is this lonely could and he is looking at all these large groups of people and trying to decide if he fits in with them or if he belongs, but he concludes that these crowds are no place for a poet, he needs his solitude to look inside himself and write, not at the outward world.

This poem was pretty traditional but for its time it is incredibly easy to understand and has a good message. It really has a morale that any of us can relate too, because we have all had times when we feel we need to get out and see people or we think we are lonely, but this tells us to sit back and think about it. Sometimes we can accomplish more on our own then with other, it gives us the time to look at ourselves and maybe find things out about ourselves that we never even knew.