Please list the techniques used by Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale."

With regard to John Keats' poem, "Ode to a Nightingale,"
there are several literary techniques he employs. Keats' employs a vast number of
literary devices to make his poetry more alive to its reader. I will give you a
sampling.

In the first stanza, "Lethe-wards" uses an
allusion (Lethe) to the mythological river one passed through after death. Drinking from
the River Lethe brought forgetfulness so that the one who had died would not miss his
former life. In stanza two, Keats uses personification multiple times, as
in:

Full of
the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the
brim,

In the above, the
author refers to bubbles winking, when winking is a human characteristic. In the third
stanza, personification is used several times again.

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Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,

Or new Love pine at them beyond
to-morrow.

In this, beauty
does not have eyes, and love cannot "pine" (which means to "yearn" or "ache") for
something. The fourth stanza uses repetition, in "Away! Away!" In the fifth stanza,
there is again personification, but also wonderful imagery, especially with "...The
murmurous haunt of flies...":

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And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming
musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer
eves.

Stanza six provides
personification again, directed to the nightingale
itself:

While
thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an
ecstasy...

Stanza seven uses
alliteration, which is when a group of words all begin with the same sound, such as
"self-same song." This stanza also alludes to the Biblical story of Ruth, living among
people not her own, homesick, in the cornfields, while the eighth and last stanza uses a
simile to compare the word "forlorn" and a "bell":

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Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

To toll me back from thee to my sole
self!