![]() It is also important to note how the bright “pure and endless light” resembles the sun and therefore God. Anything he might have previously valued immediately disappears from his mind. There is no beginning or end to the ring, a fact which relates to the speaker’s overwhelmed reaction to seeing it “the other night.” It contrasts in its steadfastness and sheer vastness with his everyday life. ![]() Eternity is represented as a ring of light. One of the most important images in this text is that of the ring. The first of these is unstressed and the second stressed. This means that each line is made up of five sets of two beats. He also chose to write ‘The World’ within the metrical pattern of iambic pentameter. It follows the pattern of aaabbccddeeffgg, alternating end sounds as the poet saw fit from stanza to stanza. Vaughan chose to structure this piece with a consistent rhyme scheme. ‘The World’ by Henry Vaughan was published in 1650 is a four stanza metaphysical poem that is separated into sets of fifteen lines.
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