Author: John Keats (1795–1821)

Title of the Author: 

• Leading Second Generation Romantic Poet
• Poet of Sensuousness 
• Poet of Beauty and Mortality

Total Lines: 30

Stanza: 3

Genre: Romantic Poetry

Published Date: 1820 (in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems)

Written Date: 1819

Form: Ode

Meter: Iambic Pentameter

Tone: Philosophical, Reflective & Melancholic. 

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDE for the first two stanzas and ABABCDEDCE for the third.

Point of View: Second-person point of view (uses “thou” and “thy”)

Setting: 

• Time Setting: Summer and Autumn of 1819. 
• Place Setting: Imagined natural world and symbolic inner landscapes