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She Walks in Beauty

Date Submitted: 11/23/2003 03:54:48
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (939 words)
"She Walks in Beauty" George Gordon Noel Byron's poem titled, "She Walks in Beauty," plainly put, is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features. The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable that allows for a rhythm to be set by the reader and can be clearly seen when one looks at a line: She walks / in beau / ty like / the night. …
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…love poem, but because the forces are so pronounced by his use of colorful language, rhythm, and use of human characteristics, "She Walks in Beauty" is world renowned for its powerful description. Not only does it describe a woman's physical beauty, but also her interior strengths. Bibliography Works Cited Eliot, T.S., "Byron," in On Poetry and Poets, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1957, p.224. Martin, L.C., in Byron's Lyrics, The University of Nottingham, 1948, pp. 24-25.
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