It opens by describing the title object as a "still unravished bride of quietness" and "foster child of silence and slow time" before describing trees which will never shed their leaves and a lover who will never catch his beloved but never lose her either.
This poem is composed of ten line stanzas, with lines 5, 6, and 7 rhyming with the last three lines in a constantly shifting pattern. Stanza four opens by describing a "mysterious priest" leading a heifer to a "green alter". It opens by describing the title object as a "still unravished bride of quietness" and "foster child of silence and slow time" before describing trees which will never shed their leaves and a lover who will never catch his beloved but never lose her either. FTP, what is this ode about a piece of pottery by John Keats?
This poem is composed of ten line stanzas, with lines 5, 6, and 7 rhyming with the last three lines in a constantly shifting pattern.
Ode on a Grecian Urn