La Belle Dame Sans Merci Flashcards
know all these quotes off by heart
1
Q
‘she looked at me as she did….
A
… love, and made sweet moan’
2
Q
‘and no…
A
…birds sing’
iambic tetrameter is broken at the end of each stansa
3
Q
knight is fooled by her appearance
‘her hair was long, her foot…
A
…was light, and her eyes were wild’
first repetition of wild emphaisises this
4
Q
‘she found me roots of…
A
..relish sweet, and honey wild, and manna dew’
5
Q
‘O what can ail thee, knight at arms…
A
… alone and palely loitering’
repeats and the end of poem, knight accepts his eternal state
6
Q
‘la belle dame sans merci…
A
…hath thee in thrall
7
Q
the mythical womans love is not nourishing
‘With horrid…
A
…warning gaped wide’
