The title of the poem that I am going to analyze is “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”. Reading the title the reader imagines immediately that the text is about a lady who lives in a really quite place, that is not usually attended by a lot of people. The reader tries to suppose something about this lady, for example who she is, why she lives there and he wants to know also how the place looks like and why people don’t go there.

Considering lay-out, the reader discovers that the text is a poem, because it is arranged into three quatrains, that are stanzas of four lines each, where the lines are of different length. The reader wonders what the reasons of the presence of three different stanzas are.

Reading the stanzas the reader understands why the author has divided the text in this way. The first stanza is used to introduce the figure of the woman, who lives in an unexplored place besides the spring of the river Dove. The lady is alone, nobody praises and loves her. In the second quatrain, the poet expresses the beauty of the woman. Wordsworth compares her to a violet hidden from the eyes by a stone. He says that she is beautiful like a star shining alone in the sky. With these lines the writer underlines how precious she is, since her beauty is not instantly visible. The poet invites the reader to recognize the precious quality of the girl, her beauty, even if it is not clearly visible. In the third stanza the reader discovers that she lived unknown until her death and what her name was. She was called Lucy and she is now in a grave and this touches the poet. It is clear that the woman was very important for Wordsworth.

The author used practical language and for this reason the poem is rich in sound devices and figures of speech. As regards sound devices, the rhyme scheme is ABAB. In the text there is an example of alliteration in the first stanza where there are some repetitions of letters s, h and o. Another device used is assonance, that is present in each line of the text and creates the rhythm and the musicality of the poem. As regards semantic choices the poet used the typical language of the 19^th century. Moreover it is not formal, because he used also common words. The semantic field of the words is the one of the natural world; he used a lot of words linked to the nature in the poem such as springs, violet, mossy stone, star and sky. In this poem Wordsworth used a normal order for words. Looking at the figures of speech, the reader finds some examples of them in text. For example some run-on-lines, a metaphor and a simile are used. Run-on-lines are present in several occasions to make the reader continue reading and to create the rhythm. The poet used a metaphor to compare Lucy to a violet hidden by a mossy stone in the first stanza, as well as the personification used to compare the lady to a star shining alone in the sky.