She Walks In Beauty (1814)

Question 1

Author?

Answer 1

Lord Byron

Question 2

Story?

Answer 2

Third person speaker celebrates the physical and inner beauty of an unnamed woman

Question 3

Themes

Answer 3

Beauty/appearance, admiration, wonder

Question 4

Tone?

Answer 4

Reverential, enchanted

Question 5

Form and structure

Answer 5

Regular rhythm and rhyme (tetrameter ABABA)- rhythm of walking, faultless like the woman being described

Present tense- sense of immediacy and continuity of love

Question 6

Language

Answer 6

Simile- “like the night”- vast, I contained, unimaginable

Alliteration and assonance- create rich sounding patterns “cloudless clones and starry skies”

Repeated opposites (antithesis)- may highlight speakers confusion and lack of comprehension

Question 7

Context

Answer 7

Byron was a famous womaniser. This poem is believed to be based on a woman in a black spangled gown at a London party

Romantic poet and era, emotion and sentiment