The first stanza gives the reader a general visual image of autumn.  The stanza allows readers to feel that they are going for a long walk on a typical autumn day, experiencing much of what Keats would have in September of 1819.  It also acts as a metaphor for the plentiful bounty the autumn brings.

Source: 
The Explicator, Spring 2001 (Thomas C. Harrison)
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