What is the author's style in the poem, We Are Seven?

“We Are Seven” is a lyrical ballad, a form of poetry that emerged in the late 18th century and that that borrowed from the ballad—popular narrative verse often set to music. This making it very songlike in structure. Wordsworth uses an iambic meter almost exclusively throughout the text. Generally speaking, each stanza consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The most notable exception to this is the first line of the poem, which is written in iambic dimeter. As such, it appears to begin midway through the line, as every other opening line of a stanza possesses eight syllables. This is very similar to the opening of Wordsworth’s other poem, “Nutting.” As both of these poems are based on the speaker’s memories, Wordsworth appears to be commenting on the way in which memories tend to arise, often unexpectedly, out of moments of silence or complacency.