Analysis

• "She Walks in Beauty" - The pronoun ‘she’ could suggest an air of mystery around the woman because he doesn’t know her. She could be anyone. The verb ‘walks’ could imply that everything about her is beautiful. It is not just her physical appearance that he admires but everything about her is beautiful even the way she moves.
• "Like the night" - Byron could use the simile ‘like the night’ to symbolise that this woman is different to all other women he has admired. Byron breaks the ordinary conventions of romantic poetry by emphasising how attractive her darkness is.
• "Of Cloudless climes and starry skies;" - The imagery used here is romantic and is mysterious just like the woman he is describing. Byron could be suggesting she is like the stars in the sky and is both lighting up the darkness and unobtainable.
• "dark and bright" - Byron uses a contrast of ‘dark and bright’ throughout the poem. This could suggest that both ‘dark’ and ‘bright’ come together in this woman to create perfection and balance.
• "tender light" , "gaudy day" - This could imply that her beauty is understated and natural. He admires how effortless her beauty is.
• "One shade the more, one ray the less" - Byron is admiring her perfection.
• "raven tress" - The adjective ‘raven’ could suggest an element of danger about the woman. Byron is also breaking conventions of the

  stereotypical sense of beauty, showing the appeal and intrigue of such darkness and mystery.
• "Where thoughts serenely", "How pure" - Byron is admiring not only her physical appearances but her ‘inner beauty’. Her ‘sweet’ thoughts match her external beauty.
• "yet eloquent" - The adjective ‘eloquent’ could suggest that her beauty

  is clear and sophisticated.
• "The smiles that win" - In this stanza, Byron is zooming into specific

  details of her face. 'The smiles that win’ could suggest that she has the

  best smile he has ever seen.
• "goodness spent" - Byron is admiring her innocence and kindness.
• "love" - It could suggest that he is just physically attracted to her so he doesn’t ‘love’ her.

  However, it could suggest that by writing the poem in the order he does shows the process of falling in ‘love’ with someone and he

  realises at the end that he does ‘love’ her.