Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
a first-person speaker addressing Wordsworth through apostrophe
Form and Meter
sonnet, iambic pentameter, ABABCDCD EE FGFG rhyme scheme
Metaphors and Similes
Alliteration and Assonance
Alliteration - rock-built refuge
Irony
The title of the poem is at odds with the poem's beginning anaphora. Wordsworth is alive, but Shelley writes as though he has perished.
Genre
Romantic Poem, Sonnet
Setting
1816 Britain
Tone
betrayed, admonishing
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist - Wordsworth at his best; Antagonist - Wordsworth when too focused on overarching themes
Major Conflict
Shelley is torn between his admiration for the Wordsworth who wrote poems like "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and the "new" Wordsworth he deplores.
Climax
In lines 10-12, the speaker declares that Wordsworth, having abandoned his dedication to truth and liberty, "shouldst cease to be."
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Allusions
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Personification
Hyperbole
Wordsworth is not truly deceased, as Shelley at times appears hyperbolically to claim
Onomatopoeia
"winter's midnight roar"
