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She Walks
In Beauty- Lord Byron
- CONTEXT
- Written in 1814
- After he laid eyes on
his cousins wife in a
black sequin dress,
explaining the first
lines
- After he laid eyes on
his cousins wife in a
black sequin dress,
explaining the first
lines
- Transgressing the conventional moral codes of his
day. Divorced and left LDN for Europe, has affairs (men+women), his sister- incest?
- Concious of his club foot
- Written in 1814
- THE BEAUTY
- Lies within the lyrical
description of not only her
physical aspects but her
inner glow
- No direct mention of the dress but
the simile 'she walks in beauty like
the night' beyonce physcial
description
- Images linked
to her beauty
are:
Innocence,
Purity, Nature
- Compares her to natural phenomena
- 'night' 'climes' 'skies' 'night' 'heaven'
- 'night' 'climes' 'skies' 'night' 'heaven'
- Compares her to natural phenomena
- Lies within the lyrical
description of not only her
physical aspects but her
inner glow
- METRE/RHYTHM
- Four feet per line, Iambic tetrametre
- Some inversion of
stress to add
emphasis
- Some inversion of
stress to add
emphasis
- Anaphors and alliteration
enhance the regular
metrical rhythm
- The rhyme scheme is regular
with some imperfect rhymes
which make you realise her
flawlessnes
- Four feet per line, Iambic tetrametre
- Use of light and dark
- Light/dark= she's perfectly balanced
- 'gaudy' day= personified
- 'gaudy' day= personified
- 'One shade more one ray less'
- Equilbrium, perfect, balanced
- Equilbrium, perfect, balanced
- Light/dark= she's perfectly balanced
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