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Spectator Competition: Ode-worthy

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EXPLORE THE ISSUE 22 March 2025
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For Competition 3391 you were invited to submit one of Keats’s odes rewritten as a sonnet or a limerick.

Four out of the five odes composed by Keats in the spring of 1819 feature in the winning line-up, as does ‘To Autumn’, written in September of that year. Once again there were many more winners than we have space for.

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