"The Solitary Reaper" is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. The poem was inspired by him and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803.
It is a pastoral snapshot of a young woman working alone in a field in the Highlands of Scotland.
The poem is made up of four octaves, primarily written in iambic tetrametre and generally following the rhyme scheme of ababccdd.