Ode to Psyche - Keats

Keats exclaims his passion and admiration for the Greek Godess Psyche - she has no temples or songs to worship her, so he tells of how he will create them for her in his imagination - will be filled with nature. 

1819 - Most creative year / Year of engagement - reflected in the odes themes of love, passion and admiration. 

First Ode Keats wrote.

Most irregular structure of the Odes, also structured like a sonnet. 

Still uses Iambic Pentametre.

The first stanza begins with a regular, alternate rhyme scheme - ABABCDCD, but then it becomes more random, incorporating unrhymed lines EFGEEGHIIJJKIKI. - Creates freshness and energy, then a sense of harmony as the rhymimg quatrian returns at end of the stanza. 

Ode starts with narrator exclaiming with reverence thier passion for Psyche "O Goddess!" repeated in third stanza "O brightest!" .

Uses multi-sensory and crossed sensory language - "flowers, fragrant-eyed." and "delicious moan." 

Also uses Anaphora to reinforce the lack of appreciation Pysche has "No Voice, no lute, no pipe..."  references this later on, replacing the 'no' with "Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe..." personal due to Keats creating his own shrine in imagination.

Personification of the lovers "lips". 

Oxymoron - "sweet enforcement." Keats does not mind being compelled to write for Psyche.

Nature imagery through reference to Keats' imagination (Romantic) - "wild-riged mountains / streams, and birds, and bees / a rose sanctuary/ buds / breeding flowers." The abundance and fertility of nature reflects the budding and ripeness of Psyche's temple in Keats' mind.

Happy / Imaginative / Sublime / Romantic / Ancient Greece.