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"Ode to a Nightingale" : Key info

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"Ode to a Nightingale" is a notable literary work by John Keats. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, to various questions of "Ode to a Nightingale".

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Author: John Keats (1795-1821)

Original Title: “Ode to a Nightingale”

Title of the Author: The Poet of Beauty 

Written Date:  Between 26 April and 18 May 1819

Published Date: Published in “Annals of the Fine Arts” in July 1819

Form: Eight 10-line stanzas

Meter: Iambic Pentameter

Tone: Melancholic and Reflective 

Genre: Ode

Total Lines: 80

Stanzas: 8

Rhyme Scheme: ababcdecde

Setting: Time Setting: 1819

Place Setting: At the Hampstead house Keats shared with Brown, possibly while sitting beneath a plum tree in the garden.