"We Are Seven" is one of Wordsworth's poems repeatedly mentioned alongside "Anecdote for Fathers".Bernstein 1979, pp. 339-343.Bialostosky 1982, pp. 227-243. The two poems are placed one after the other in all editions of Lyrical Ballads.Blank 1995, p. 120. They both introduce child figures who are believed to have been inspired by the children Wordsworth met in his life—Basil Montagu and a girl from the Goodrich Castle.Natov 2006, p. 22.
