Author: John Keats (1795-1821)

Original Title: "Ode to a Nightingale"

Title of the Author: 

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

Published Date: Published in “Annals of the Fine Arts” in July 1819

Form: Ode

Meter: Iambic Pentameter

Tone: Melancholic, Dreamlike & Reflective

Genre: Romantic Poetry

Total Lines: 80

Stanzas: 8

Point of View: First-person (uses “I”)

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDE

Setting:

• Time Setting: 1819
• Place Setting: At the Hampstead house, Keats shared with Brown, possibly while sitting beneath a plum tree in the garden.