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2 Because of this, when Wordsworth does use a verb denoting a physical action it is all the more striking. In 'Simon Lee', for example, the mattock totters in the old man's hand. This is the one dynamic finite verb in this poem. In 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' the dynamic verb chatter is part of the repetition in that poem, and helps to create an incantatory effect. Adjectives are on the whole rather conventional and commonplace. Examples are comely; fair; sad; happy; and lovely. Because of their very ordinariness, Wordsworth can use them to good effect by stepping only very slightly outside his usual run.
The second line, in which the narrator is making sure his point is understood, is the type of laboured and unnecessary explanation that might be expected of such a speaker. The reader, as well as the listener in the poem, knows perfectly well which thorn is being referred to and it is exactly at points like these that Wordsworth runs the risk of losing our sympathy. However, by this time we are far enough into the story to feel an impatience which can create a sense of suspense and urgency. It might be expected that here the listener would interrupt the narrator.
This can be seen in even a short extract: God cursed me in my sore distress, I prayed, yet every day I thought I loved my children less. The vocabulary is not quite so monosyllabic as that of 'The Idiot Boy' and others of the narrative ballads. Wordsworth uses here a fair sprinkling of disyllabic words, although they originate from the same common core of English vocabulary. There are, perhaps, more abstract nouns, such as grief; labour; peace; comfort, and so on. Dynamic or 'action' verbs are less frequent than usual, with the exception of one or two (most notably the oft-repeated dwindled) and the dynamic verbs that do occur are commonplace, such as bought and sold.