Daffodils is a beautiful poem penned by William Wordsworth featuring a Quatrain-Couplet rhyme scheme pattern of A-B-A-B-C-C. The poetry is said to be themed on an experience in which Wordsworth was strolling through a hilltop valley when he came across a valley dazzling with streams of golden yellow daffodils. Metaphorically, he compares himself to a cloud who was wandering aimlessly in the sky until he caught the glimpse of the sight of golden daffodils, which seemed to fill his heart with the bliss of solitude, rejuvenating his poetic creative spirit at the same time. Read the full poem below!
I
wandered lonely as a cloud
That
floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When
all at once I saw a crowd,
A
host, of golden daffodils;
Beside
the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering
and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous
as the stars that shine
And
twinkle on the milky way,
They
stretched in never-ending line
Along
the margin of a bay:
Ten
thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing
their heads in sprightly dance.
The
waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did
the sparkling waves in glee:
A
poet could not but be gay,
In
such a jocund company:
I
gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What
wealth the show to me had brought:
For
oft, when on my couch I lie
In
vacant or in pensive mood,
They
flash upon that inward eye
Which
is the bliss of solitude;
And
then my heart with pleasure fills,
And
dances with the daffodils.
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