...ived great pleasure were Miss Carter's Poem on spring, a poem in the six-line stanza which he was particularly fond of and had composed much in,— for example, Ruth. This is noteworthy, for Wordsworth 's lyric range, especially so far as tune is concerned, was always narrow. His sense of melody was painfully dull, and some of his lighter effusions, as he would have called them, are almost ludicr...