<Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802 </Td> </Tr> <P> Until that Friday 21 May 1802, Wordsworth had shunned the sonnet form, but his sister Dorothy's recital of Milton's sonnets had "fired him" and he went on to write some 415 in all . </P> <P> It is a beauteous evening is the only "personal" sonnet he wrote at this time; others written in 1802 were political in nature and "Dedicated to Liberty" in the 1807 collection . </P> <P> The simile "quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves her effects . On the one hand "breathless" reinforces the placid evening scene Wordsworth is describing; on the other hand it suggests tremulous excitement, preparing the reader for the ensuing image of the eternal motion of the sea . Cleanth Brooks provided an influential analysis of the sonnet in terms of these tensions in The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (see also Paradox (literature)). </P>

William wordsworth it is a beauteous evening calm and free analysis