ound. This tells of the great bounty of the current time, but adds a quiet feeling to it, such as what Keats was trying to communicate -- that death or a time of quiet is approaching.
The second stanza has mainly quiet sounds. With words such as oft, store, swath, seeks, careless, soft-lifted, and drowsed, the whole stanza is filled with soft s and w sounds. This makes the stanza very sleepy and slow but with a warm comfortable feeling. What is most brilliant is that he writes about
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