William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us" is a sonnet. A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, typically with a specific rhyme scheme. This poem follows the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet, consisting of an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines), with a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA for the octave and CDCDCD for the sestet.

The poem critiques the materialism of the modern world and laments humanity's disconnection from nature.