This poem follows an ABABCDEDCCE rhyme scheme and its final stanza states that "the small gnats mourn" "in a wailful choir" and that "gathering swallows twitter in the skies" in describing the title goddess's music.
In a letter to J. H. Reynolds, the author of this poem notes that it was inspired in part by the warm look of some stubble fields. In the second stanza of this poem, the addressee is pictured "sitting careless on a granary floor, / Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind," as well as "by a cyder-press with patient look... [watching] the last oozing hours by hours." This poem follows an ABABCDEDCCE rhyme scheme and its final stanza states that "the small gnats mourn" "in a wailful choir" and that "gathering swallows twitter in the skies" in describing the title goddess's music. The title goddess is said to conspire in loading and blessing "with fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run," and she is described as the "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." For 10 points, name this Keats ode addressing the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."
In a letter to J. H. Reynolds, the author of this poem notes that it was inspired in part by the warm look of some stubble fields.
“To {Autumn}”