2.  The poem is set in the mountainous regions of Scotland. The
poet is taking a walk through these Highlands when he sees
something which makes him stop

3. The rhyme scheme is:
a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d
The Form is :
Lyrical Ballad
The tone and atmosphere of this poem:
is very calm,
emotional and peaceful.
Language :
Simple and direct.

4.  Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

5.  The first two stanza:
 Once when the poet was in Scotland, he was walking past the
highlands. He came across highland lass who was reaping the
harvest and binding the grains all by herself. Along with her
work she was singing a song. The poet was highly impressed
by her singing and stopped to hear her song. Her voice was so
enchanting that it seemed to the poet that she was more
melodious than the nightingale

6.  Stanza three
The poet, even so, does not recognize the phrases of
the reaper's song. He commences to speculate on
the subject matter of the song. He thinks that
possibly it is about an historical incident which
occurred in a distant land or a battle which might
have used spot decades ago.
He even more wonders, whether the tune has some
thing to do with the day to day daily life of the
solitary reaper. He thinks that she might be singing
about grief and sadness which has occurred and
may well return.

7.  Stanza four
To the poet, it seemed that the song of the solitary reaper
would not stop. She sang as she worked, bending about her
sickle. For a long time the poet listened to the song, enchanted
and transfixed. As he relocated up the hill, he ongoing to have
the songs in his heart even following he could no extended
hear it.

8.  The poem is in the present tense (“Reaping and singing by
herself….Alone she cuts and binds the grain”), but from the
fourth and last stanza, it becomes clear that Wordsworth is
talking about an incident which had taken place before its
telling (“Whate’er the theme the Maiden sang…..I listened,
motionless and still”). There is, however, a smooth transition
from the present to the past.

9.  The power of human imagination to see the transcendent in the
everyday.

10.  The power of human imagination to see the transcendent in the
everyday.