She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron

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ENG 220 She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty is a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron. It is believed Byron wrote the poem after meeting his cousin in black mourning clothes. The poem describes her outer appearance as a symbol of her inner beauty and purity. Poets like Lord Byron use their poetic structures to reflect what the poem’s main concerns are. Poetic form; stanzas and meter, and content; what the poem is about, are always connected and go side by side. This essay will look at the content and form of the poem and how they go side by side. Xnxnxn This poem consists of three six-line stanzas, which allows us to see the development of the poet’s state of mind when it comes to the woman. The poem follows the same rhyme scheme and the same metrical patter. The rhyme scheme of this poem is ababab, cdcdcd, efefef. The pairing of two rhyming sounds in each stanza is really helping with the poem, because the poem revolves around two forces; darkness and light. It also works with the two areas of the women’s beauty; the internal and the external beauty. The meter is also very regular, it is in iambic tetrameter. The first stanza describes the woman from a distant perspective; it is the moment he met her and the moment of the attraction.The poem opens with a line that doesn’t have punctuation. This is an enjambed line, meaning that it continues without pause onto the second line. She walks in beauty, like the night a of cloudless climes and starry skies; b

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