Analyse the poem "To Autumn" by John Keats. Discuss the poetic form and language used.

‘To Autumn’ is a lyrical poem, which propounds the writer’s feelings and thoughts on a particularly beautiful day. The poet and the narrator appear to be one and the same and he appears to be the sole spectator of the luscious scenery. Whilst in the first stanza the poem does not speak directly to any one person, but simply describes the scenery, the second stanza seems to be addressing the autumn season itself, ‘Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?’
In the last stanza the poem seems to be adopting a more rhetorical tone which could be following the poet’s own train of thought.
Keats uses an iambic pentameter within the poem to form a gentle and slow peaceful sense of movement throughout the seasons. The poem by telling us that summer is nearly ending -‘maturing summer’ and this is the first reference to the concept of time continuously moving on. Other references to time are then made with a ‘patient look’ and ‘hours by hours’, in stanza two, and ...