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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Wordsworth, William. William Wordsworth: Favorite Poems. "The Solitary Reaper." Dover Publications, 1992. New Edition Paperback.

• "The Solitary Reaper" is a poem of 32 lines, grouped in four stanzas of eight lines each.

• It is written in iambic tetrameter, with the exception of the fourth line of each stanza, which is in iambic trimeter.

• The first and fourth stanzas are rhymed abcbddee; the middle two stanzas are rhymed ababccdd.

• The verse form thus combines four lines of loose ballad meter and rhyme scheme with four lines of loose heroic couplets in each stanza.

• Lines 1 and 2 are an exclamation inviting the audience to "Behold" a "Highland Lass" working alone in a field.

• The reader is told that the young woman is reaping the field and singing while she works.

• The speaker commands the reader to listen...

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