i have to analyze the following poem and tell the rythm, rhyme, rhyme scheme, stanzaic orm, and the genre of the poem, and discuss the inside context, the outside context, and the logical structure of the poem...i dont have a clue what any of this is...help me please!!! She Dwelt Among the Undtrodden Ways by William Wordsworth.


She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Veside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
-Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

There is some info here:

The poem is described as a monody, which is a poetic form of elegy.

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Post Edited (05-05-04 11:47)

rusty, do a Google search for, prosody, ballad meter, common meter, stanza, quatrain, feminine & masculine rhymes.

A rhyme of this poem is ABAB form, which means every other line rhymes. I'm not sure if there's a difference between a rhyme or rhyme scheme. The poem obviously does rhyme, so I think ABAB is the rhyme scheme.
Discussing the context of the poem is something different altogether. I don't know the difference between inside and outside context- try doing a search to find out.
But here's what I can get from the poem... there's a girl that doesn't stand out in a crowd, and doesn't seem something very special to anyone of the common crowd, but is loved and missed greatly by the speaker.
Stanzaic orm could be how the stanzas ( the separations of the poems) are set up- that would be in lines of four and in the above stated rhyme scheme.
I'm not quite sure on anything else. Hope this helps!!!!!!!!!!!!