I need Help With Scanning this poem for Meter and Effect.?

Here is teh Poem, it is a classic:



I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud



I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.



Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.



The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed--and gazed--but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:



For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.



I need what the effect, meter, and anything else important baout it.

I need Help With Scanning this poem for Meter and Effect.?
Let me help you with the metre first: it is iambic, i.e. an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one, as if you were saying "I AM, I AM".

It is a crossed rhyme you find in the 1st four verses of each stanza and then a paired rhyme, a couplet, in the 5th and 6th.

In stanza 1and 2 in vers 6 there is a deviation from the very regular metre; these lines start with a stressed syllable, making the beginning almost a trochee, perhaps in accordance with the sudden movement of "fluttering" and "tossing", whereas everything else is smooth and tranquil, almost pensive; thus the regular beat and the smoothness of the rhymes support the author's serene bliss.



The formatting in stanza 3 is slightly incorrect at least as far as the lay-out in your questions goes:

"The waves beside them danced; but they

Outdid the ..."