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Ode to Poet John Keats - Form of the Week Keatsean Ode

Ode to Poet John Keats (1795 - 1821)
                   " Beauty is truth, truth
                   beauty,' -- that is all
                   Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"*

Too soon a young and gifted poet died
          but left behind his love for symmetry.
His sonnet, ode and classic epic cried
          with vivid color, tone, in harmony.
Appealing to our senses, sight and sound
          an ancient Grecian Urn he paints in Ode,
                    a Cricket's song in English Sonnet frame.
A Nightingale in measured verse is crowned
          and through his Melancholy he bestowed
                    to us a truth in beauty to proclaim.
                   ~~~Judi Van Gorder

*from Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

"Form of the week: English/Keatsian Ode"   Exercise 12-1-17