In later periods of life I have deplored, as we have all reason to do, a subjugation of an opposite character, and have rejoiced over the remembrances, as is expressed in the lines-'obstinate questionings/Of sense and outward things,/Fallings from us, vanishings" etc." For the general idea of the poem, cf. Wordsworth uses several different metrical patterns used throughout the poem.
There is no single rhyme scheme, but there are individual patterns of rhyme in each stanza. Throughout Ode: Intimations of Immortality, William Wordsworth expresses an idealized view childhood as the stage of life in which human beings enjoy the. At that time I was afraid of such processes. ‘ Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ by William Wordsworth is a 206 line poem that is split in eleven stanzas of varying lengths. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality. Often termed as immortality ode or the Great Ode, this poem of Wordsworth brings out the inner philosopher that he is. with a feeling congenial to this, I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Long afterwards, in 1843, he remarked of the poem: "Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being. After two years, Wordsworth completed his ode, by early in 1804. 1] Wordsworth recorded that "two years at least passed between the writing of the four first stanzas and the remaining part." Begun on Saturday, March 27, 1802: "At breakfast William wrote part of an ode." The poem was evidently finished in some form down to the end of the fourth stanza by April 4 when Coleridge composed the first version of his Dejection: An Ode, which echoed phrases from his friend's new poem.