Summary Angrily, the speaker accuses the modern age of having lost its connection to nature and to everything meaningful: "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" ... (Sparknotes.com, 2003) Form This poem consists of: • Fourteen lines • Written in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet • The octave follows a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA • The sestet follows a rhyme scheme of CDCDCD • The octave proposes a question or an idea that the sestet answers, comments upon, ...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School