"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

This ode is driven through the emotions Yeats sees while looking at an urn. Urns typically have scenes painted on them telling a story or just a painting of a special, meaningful place. Yeats depicts these scenes through the emotional tags he feels to each. He utilizes these places to take him to a deeper place of thinking. He splits each scene into five stanzas and ties a romantic twist to them.

         The in general the poem is reflecting his belief of love and the innocence of it. He begins with talking about a bride and then on to someone that has never been kissed. It clearly expresses meditation on love and what it should look like, being happy and blissful. He structures it into five stanzas; ten lines each with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDEDCE. One of Yeats main devices is rhetorical questions that he places throughout the whole poem.