TEXT ANALYSIS

SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS

The title suggests to the reader the poem is about a girl who lives somewhere people do not go or know. Reader expectations are who the girl is, where she lives, why she lives in an untrodden place. The text is arranged into three quatrains, so it is a poem, and every stanza has a particular function; each of them is about a different theme.

In the first stanza the writer introduces the girl, saying that she lives in an unknown place and nobody know her.

As the second one the poet describes how beautiful this girl is using two metaphores: the first one in the first line of this stanza, the writer comparises the girl to a violet; and the second one in the third and fourth line, he comparises her to a singular star which shines in the sky. So the reader understands the huge beauty of the girl. Morover there is an enjambement between the third and the fourth line.

In the last stanza the reader understand how much this girl is important for the poet and that she is dead. Even she is not well kown by people, her deth is a big difference for the poet.

As the connotative analysis the poet uses some figures of speech: a metaphor in stanza two; a metonimy in the first stanza, “untrodden ways” to say every place not well known; a personification in the second stanza, the star become the girl; and also a simile when he says “fair as a star”.

The rhyme scheme is ABAB.