In the first stanza, the speaker is listening to the nightingale sing “some melodious plot,” which denotes the speakers aches and pains from the beauty of the bird 's song (8). In stanza three, the speaker mentions the “fever, and the fret” of life, the fret being the worry of the mortality of man (23). Furthermore, the speaker also mentions in stanza three that the “youth grows pale, and specter-thin” (26). Everything in …show more content…
The rhyme scheme of this poem is abab and the meter is iambic pentameter. The theme revolves around the urn and the permanence and reality surrounding the urn. In the first stanza, the speaker marvels at the urn and its picture, which depicts an “unravished bride of quietness” (1). The bride is quiet because she is a timeless image that is apart of an unfinished story. In the second stanza, the speaker mentions melodies that are “unheard are sweeter” because they are unaffected by the harsh reality that is time (11). In the third stanza, the speaker sheds light on the melodist whose “songs forever new” (24). The songs will be forever new because each person who sees the urn will imagine a different melody. In the fourth stanza, the speaker gazes upon a new scene, one of a group of villagers heading to a sacrifice of a heifer. The heifer was covered “with garlands dressed,” which remained on the heifer due to its permanence within the urn (34). In the fifth and final stanza, the speaker mentions that the urn “shalt remain, in midst of other woe” (47). Although generations will come and go, the beauty of the urn will