I didn't think of the poem being a reflection. A poem that has an inherent license, it seems to me, to wander, even drift a bit. I'm sure I missed it because I wasn't sensitive enough to what was happening. But I think it was also the length of the lines. I have to think about that. Why did the lines and meter preclude me from seeing that? Wordsworth did it.
I'm mentioning it because I wonder if it's 100 percent me being blind or if it'd work better if it was a little looser. Would a different flow make it more evident?
This isn't a critique. It's more of a ramble that maybe has some worth.
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