When the intelligent reader looks at the title he can notice the poet chooses remote words.

The reader can make two hypothesis: the first one is the poem may refers to a long time ago, because the verb (dwelt) is in the simple past; the second one is the poet may wants to focus the attention of the reader on the language used.

Untrodden means hidden, this word is made by the prefix un and the word trodden; it refers to a place that is not attended by people.

To dwell is an archaism and it means to live.

The intelligent reader should ask himself a question: “ Why the She lived in a hidden place?”

The poem is organized in 3 stanzas made by quatrains. It may is a ballad (popular text): the poet uses a simple language and the narrator is in the first person.

The most important message is that something hidden sometimes could be very important: people who don’t show themselves are the most worth knowing.

She, Lucy, lives in a very natural scenery and she is an young lady and only a few people prize and love her.

The poet uses a simile to compare Lucy to a star to show how important she really is. And he compares she to a violet because even she is important and beautiful as a star  she is also humble; she is beautiful but hidden as a violet: you don’t really notice it until you get closer.

At the last two lines the poet makes an exclamation: But she is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to me!

The narrator expresses all of his despair; since this exclamation the reader could think the ballad is narrated in the third person, but in this two lines the narrator betrays himself showing his presence. The poem is characterized by an upward climax.