She walks in Beauty

• She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies


  Walking iambic, showing unlimited and free. Alliterated collocations,
• Thus mellowed to that tender light


  -Use of verb "mellowed" signifies haziness and dreaminess that the poet feels when he sees this woman.

  -There is also personification of the word "light" which reflects the poets intense emotions.

  Synesthesia - mixing of senses, shows how her beauty clouds his reality

  Conveys 18th century virtues, e.g. Modesty
• One shade the more, one ray the less


  The line is balanced by the comma in the middle showing that a smallest disruption would disturb the beauty of the girl
• Which waves in every raven tress


  Consonance of the w and the v shows a beautiful wave and the use of the word raven shows a double entendre of how jet black her hair is but also romanticism of the animals
• So soft, so calm, yet eloquent


  Shows that women were expected not to sah anything but jusg to look pretty
• The smiles that win, the tints that glows


  The attributes of win and glow shows almost that she is a trophy to be won
• A mind of peace with all below


  Shows the fact it's like heaven looking down on earth but also something sexual of looking down at the privates
• Context


  -Byron was a Romantic

  -he was loose on morals

  -fell for his cousin by marriage

  -1813 inspired by a Jewish tone
• Structure


  3 sestets

  Rhyme scheme of ABABAB

  Indented lines