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To Autumn, season of mists

Author: John Keats Year: 1820 Length: 494 characters Difficulty: demanding Public domain

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

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Keats wrote To Autumn on 19 September 1819, after walking near Winchester, and described the fields in a letter of the same week. It was printed in 1820 in his last collection, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems. The poem has three stanzas of eleven lines each. Wikisource carries the text of his collected works.

About this text

Keats wrote To Autumn on 19 September 1819, after walking near Winchester, and described the fields in a letter of the same week. It was printed in 1820 in his last collection, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems. The poem has three stanzas of eleven lines each. Wikisource carries the text of his collected works.

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One long stanza held together by semicolons, which trains the reach to punctuation without breaking the rhythm.

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