'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and 'The Preservation of Flowers': two remarkable poems, two very different writing styles. This essay will examine their contrasts and similarities, from the relevant formal aspects, to the deeper meanings hidden between the lines. We will examine both writers' use of: rhyme scheme, sound structure, word choice, figurative language, and punctuation. The essay will also touch a bit on the writers' backgrounds: themselves and their inspiration, with the intention of gaining a greater understanding of both texts. The structure and form of both poems are evidently dissimilar. Wordsworth's poem follows a clear rhyme scheme: ABABCC; and contains four stanzas of six lines each. In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the third, the second with the fourth, and the stanza ends with a rhyming couplet. Bird's sixteen-line narrative verse follows no formal rhyme scheme. He describes the complete rhyme as “too jarring” E1 for his personal tastes. Choose instead: use consonances and close rhymes. Despite this seemingly unconventional style in which the poem is written, it follows iambic pentameter, with each line containing five stressed syllables, except line 13 which contains six. rose'13.This is a very clever play on words, using the term 'extra rose' to reflect the extra syllable in the line. This clearly demonstrates Bird's astute understanding of structure and form. He explains: “There's also a joke about the poem: each line has five accents, but the line 'extra rose' has six accents. One more rose, one more accent.”E2. This also presents another parallel to Wordsworth's text, where the meter is not u...... in the center of the paper... he's right. Contrary to this statement, however, the reality remains: that without dissection and in-depth analysis, the true meanings encoded in these two texts may remain perpetually esoteric. Bibliography. T Furniss & M Bath.1996. Reading Poetry: An Introduction. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited..Preface to Lyrical Ballads, in Wordsworth (1968) Lyrical ballads, pp. 241-72, 246. "Organic sensitivity" refers to the responsiveness of the senses. See "The Tables Turned", in Wordsworth (1968) The Lyrical Ballads, pp. 105-6..Internet 1 http://www.enotes.com/william-wordsworth/q-and-a/what-elements-nature-daffodils-poem-144087.Internet 2 http ://www.wordsworth.org .uk/poetry/index.asp?pageid=101.Internet 3 http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2337.html.Internet4 http://academic.brooklyn. cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html