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The World Is Too Much With Us

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The poem "The World is Too Much With Us" is one written by William Wordsworth, the text is taken from the book Prentice Hall Literature The British Tradition, and in the poem the speaker is expressing his feelings about the world and what it has come to. Lines one through three mention how everything in the world is temporary, and that nothing truly belongs to us because soon it will be taken back. Wordsworth explains it in a way that lets the reader know that the speaker of the poem is exhausted and annoyed with the ways of the world. The evidence is shown in lines nine and ten where the speaker says, "I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;" He is sick and tired of the ways of people and how damaging human actions are to the world. In lines two and three he also talks about how humans care more about material things and would rather have that than the beauty of nature, and by buying materialistic things humans "waste our powers" as said in line two. In the ninth line there is also a turn or a "volta" which is the Italian word for turn and in a sonnet it is the turn of a thought or argument. The turn is where the speaker is about to announce his wish to be a pagan.
A common type of rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDCDCD, this particular rhyme scheme is found in the poem "The World is Too Much With Us." The meter found in this poem is mostly Iambic pentameter which is where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable in that order. William Wordsworth also

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