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There are different ways in which John Keats chooses to write him poems. Some of these are...:
Ballad: This is a narrative or poem which addresses themes relevant in Romanticism such as love, courage, the mysterious
and the supernatural. It has a set rhyme scheme.
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Ode: A lyric poem usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure.
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- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on Melancholy
- Ode to Autumn
- Ode to Psyche
Sonnet: A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal
stanzaic structure.
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- When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
- Keen, Fitful Gusts...
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
- Bright Star! would I were as steadfast as thou art.
Epic:A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds .
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