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John Keats’s Poetry Keatss greatest works were written in the late 1810s, among them The Eve of St. Agnes, the great odes and two versions of Hyperion. Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Psyche To Autumn Ode on Melancholy The Ode dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally. The ode in English is usually a succession of stanzas in lines of varying length and meter. During the romantic period in England, Shelley wrote “Ode to the West Wind” and John Keats produced his great odes, including “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Ode on a Grecian Urn This poem was first published in January 1820. It is thought not to be based on any specific Greek vase. This ode is frequently treated as Keats central poem, as a key to the understanding and appreciation of all his work, and with its reiteration of all the major themes, its richness of imagery, its superb craftsmanship, it is quite capable of filling such a role. Literally hundreds of interpretations have been offered of it, no one of which, as Walter Bate has said, satisfies anyone except the interpreter, for too many different elements converge in these stanzas to make for an easy consensus. The Form Each stanza is 10 lines long, metered in a relatively precise iambic pentameter, and divided into a two part rhyme scheme, the last 3 lines of which are variable. The first 7 lines of each stanza follow an ABABCDE rhyme scheme, but the second occurrences of the CDE sounds do not follow the same order. In stanza 1 and 5, lines 7 through 10 are rhymed DCE; in stanza 2, CED; in stanzas 3 and 4, CDE. The two-part rhyme scheme creates the sense of a two-part thematic structure as well. The first 4 lines of each stanza roughly define the subject of the stanza, and the last 6 roughly explicate or develop it. Stanza 1 Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slo