Poetry Remix

She Walks in Beauty byGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron
Dramatic Situation: Seeing a beautiful woman from a distance.
Speaker: a distant obserber.
Context/Setting: A place where an onlooker can look, with no inturruption.
Structure:ABABAB, CDCDCD, EFEFEF- (with 8 syllable lines)
Three paragraphs: Paragraph 1 describes beauty, states a fact. Paragraph 2 tells how she is beautiful. Paragraph 3 tells why she is beautiful.
Theme: She is beautiful because of everything about here. Not only a physical appearence.
Diction: mends words to fit the 8 syllable lines. Innocent, beauty, eloquent. adjectives used to describe beauty.
Grammar and Meaning: colons and semi-colons are used to separate ideas withing the poem.
Images and Figures of Speech: Similes: "she walks in beauty, like the night"
Tone: In awe of the woman and her beauty.
Lit Devices: Personification- gives traits to the woman's beauty, rather than the woman.

She Walks in Beauty

By Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1788–1824 Lord Byron (George Gordon)

She walks in beauty, like the night

   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

   Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

   Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

   Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

   Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

   How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

   So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

   But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

   A heart whose love is innocent!