“By the Sea,” by William Wordsworth, was my choice for my tenth blog.  I chose this poem by noticing the title.  I think that poems describing the sea in anyway are amazing.  I have not read a lot of Wordsworth because I’ve been stuck on mostly 19th century poems and poets, but I decided it was time for a change.  This poem appeared to me to be very religious because it had a lot to do with comparing God to the mighty sea.  I noticed there was a lot of comparison in this poem, using similes and metaphors.  For example, “The holy time is quiet as a nun.”  It starts out slowly by describing someone walking by the ocean, and then progresses to realizing that God is always with us, even when we don’t realize it.  Also, cesuras are placed in the most perfect spots. There is one in particular that struck me, “A sound like thunder-everlastingly.”  I love how the pauses make the reader stop, and realize what the author is really describing.  As far as the rhyme scheme goes, it was a very unusual one. I noticed that the first and last lines rhymed, and then the two in the middle rhymed.  This is for the stanzas that have four lines total, but then there are some lines that only have three lines and no rhyme scheme.  I personally like how Wordsworth mixed this up a little bit because it gives the reader a different taste of poetry.  The last thing I did notice was how the words that had to do with God or religion were capitalized.  That seemed like a neat way to emphasize the big picture of the poem.