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As a poet John Keats, earned fame due to his ideals about politics and society. The thought process of Keats has been called an assortment of things from a child full of imagination to a skillful genius. Through Keats poetry the reader will be able to see him develop into a man with his own outspoken beliefs. Throughout Keats' poetry he exemplifies many poetic elements from allegory to stanza couplets. In Keats's poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, First Looking into Chapman's Homer, and On the Sonnet the two major elements in these poems are form and mood.
In the poem, The Eve of St. Agnes, Keats shows diversity of style by writing a romantic poem. The stanza form of this poem was Spenserian. This is a nine-line form with the first eight lines in iambic character and the last line in iambic hexameter. (Allan Danzing) By example, in this stanza, Keats uses this unique form to express the love between Madeline and Porphyro.
His prayer he saith, this patient, holy man;
Then takes......

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