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Composed upon Westminster Bridge

1. It’s morning. The intelligent reader can understand it from words like morning, sun, bright, bare, silent, glittering and first splendour.  
2. Adjectives like silent, bare, glittering, calm, sweet, smokeless, are used to convey the description of what we can see near Westminster Bridge in the early morning. The adjectives appeal predominantly to sight.
3. The poet uses personification and anaphor.
4. First the tone is a romantic one, than it’s more calm.
5. It’s a shakespearean sonnet.
6. The poet is surprised of what he sees. Probably he does not recognize London in the description he is making. In the morning, the city shows itself differently from how the city is usually. We do not see a cahotic and full of smoking city, but something beautiful. The poet uses the present simple describing the city. What he felt, is already clear in his mind. It’s a not so aged remembered experience.