Wordsworth's Metaphysical Verse: Geometry, Nature, and Form

Aeneid architecture artistic blank verse sonnet Book character composition concept conceptual form context continuous geometrical proportion continuous proportion contrast diction divisions dream dream-vision elements enjambed eternity Euclid's Elements example Excursion existence final forms of nature fugue geometrical design geometrical form geometrical thought golden section human iambic pentameter images imagination Immortality Ode intellectual language larger line-length lines major mathematical meditative metaphysical metre metrical feet Milton mind minor section mode mutable numbers octave and sestet ontological Paradise Lost passage perception philosophical phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic Prelude present principle prosody psychological ratio relationship rhyme rhythms River Duddon scale sense sestet shows simple binary form Snowdon Solitary Solitary's soul spirit stanza sublime syllables symbolic form symbolic geometrical symbolic patterns temporal tercets thematic theme thereby timeless Tintern Abbey tion transcendent transcendental universe verse paragraph vision Wanderer Wanderer's William Wordsworth Wordsworth's blank verse Wordsworth's poetry Yew-Trees