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Why do you think the poet chose to imitate the form of the folk ballad inthis poem?
 
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  • Predilections for the ballad form, for medieval settings, and for supernatural themes were all characteristic of one strain of English Romanticism, as exemplified earlier (at about the time of Keatss birth) in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, most notably in Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Robert Southey. All of these qualities can be seen as part of the Romantic Movements revolt against the Neoclassical emphasis of the previous age, with its predilection for heroic couplets, urban and contemporary settings, and rationally oriented, often didactic verse. Notice how many of the attributes of the medieval folk ballad Keats imitates here: lack of rime in the first and third lines of each quatrain; occasional metrical irregularities; pointless specificity (kisses fourcompare Nine bean-rows will I have there in Yeatss The Lake Isle of Innisfree); shifting (and unidentified) speakers; and elliptical narration.
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