She walks in beauty Flashcards
Poet?
Lord Byron
About?
The narrator describes a beautiful woman he has seen, describing her each body part in turn. He uses light and dark to reflect her beauty. He suggests that her appearance reflects her personality.
Context?
Byron was known for his lavish lifestyle and scandalous affairs.
Form:
Regular ABABAB rhyme scheme
Iambic Tetrameter
Enjambment
Structure:
Three stanza’s of equal length.
As the poem progresses the focus turns less on her physical beauty and more on her supposed personality.
Q - First line, Metaphor for darkness
‘She walks in beauty, like the night’
Q - Last line, her virtuous and pure love
‘A mind whose love is innocent!’
Q - She lived a moral life
‘tell of days in goodness spent’
Q - Sibilance, her delicacy and softness
‘So soft, so calm, yet elequent’
Q - Antithesis - Light and Dark contrast
‘best of dark and bright’
‘One shade the more, one ray the less’’
