Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a sweet inland murmur. –“Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” William Wordsworth What is the effect of the word sweet in this passage? The word sweet emphasizes the speaker’s fear of the natural world. The word sweet suggests that the water tastes good. The word sweet shows that the landscape is pleasing to the speaker of the poem.