The first stanza is dominated by a lively mood and vigorous, tangible images: autumn, which adapts to the robustness of a young season, is personified as a action agent. This concept is best illustrated by diction, obviously by the active verbs that Keats employs (i.e. things that Autumn is doing or does) such as "conspire", "charge", "bless" (3), "bend", "fill" ”, and “swell” (5-7). The lines “…Budding more / and still more” once again suggest the overwhelming sensoriality, for which enjambement is appropriately necessary. Rhythm also serves to emphasize atmosphere: Keats departs sharply from the general rhythm of iambic pentameter through trochaic inversions in the opening phrases of the first two lines, “Season of mists...” and “Close bosom friend.. ,” respectively. (1-2). However, the speaker's tone, in contrast to the initial mood, is one of melancholy; comes to light at the stanza's conclusion, in which it is suggested that such liveliness may be an illusion: "till they think the hot days will never cease, / For summer has overflowed their slimy cells." (10-11). So it seems...