La belle dame sans merci

• "I made a garland for her headband bracelets too" -line 17


  obsession from the knight, acts as imprisonment
• "I set her on my pacing steed" -line 21


  shows obsession from the knight but lack of choice from la belle dame
• "she said in language strange , I love thee true" -line 27


  the knights obsession with love ,could potentially make him hallucinate to what he wants to hear
• "I shut her wild wild eyes" -line 31


  shows obsession from the knight with preserving a flawless women, also shows there is no choice from la belle dame
• "alone and palely loitering" -line 2+46


  repetition shows the knights isolation and loss of time
• "no birds sing" -line 4+48


  repetition shows how nature has withdrawn just as the knight has done
• "on the cold hill side" -line 36+44


  repetition shows how nature and setting can be isolating in itself
• "the sedge is withered from the lake" -line 3+47


  repetition shows nature withdraws from itself ,almost to protect itself from something
• "I see a lily on thy brow" -line 9


  motif of illness, foreshadows death of the knight
• "on they cheeks a fading rose, fast withered too" -line 11


  motif of illness, the knight quickly fading into death and permanent isolation
• "I saw pale kings and princes too, pale warriors, death-pale were they all" -line 37


  motif of illness ,knight becoming too ill to escape the isolation he finds himself in.
• "starved lips in the gloom" -line 41


  motif of illness, lack of life from past victums