1. An Ode To Autumn, by John Keats

2. Poem’s form reflects the three main phases of Autumn. Can be read as literal celebration of an often neglected season, but also as a metaphor for – and a celebration of – life. The iambic pentameter reflects the natural rhythm of speech, helping to convey the measured/concentrated flow of the season. The rhyme scheme is non-repetitive. An appeal to the senses, with the visual imagery giving way to the aural in the end.

3. Stanza 2

4. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

5. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

6. Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

7. Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

8. And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook;

9. Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.