He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and then shows a positivity or a ray of hope at the end of almost all his poems. ... The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. ... Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion ...

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