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She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all thats 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 oer her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. And on that cheek, and oer 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! George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.? The first impression that George Byrons She Walks in Beauty gives us is beauty, which is exactly the subject of the poem. On the evening of June 11, 1814, Byron attended a party with his friend at the London home. Among the other guests was the wife of Byron’s cousin, who was newly widowed and wore a black mourning gown brighten with spangles. Her exquisite good looks dazzled Byron and inspired him to write “She Walks in Beauty.” The poem uses images of light and darkness interacting to describe the wide spectrum of elements in a beautiful womans personality and looks. Today, I will analysis “She Walks in Beauty” from the point of view of stylistics. The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter. The three six-line stanzas of this poem all follow the same rhyme scheme and the same metrical pattern. There are only six rhyming sounds in this eighteen-line poem because the rhyme scheme flows as ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF. The rhyming words themselves, especially in the first stanza, have importance: notice how night rhymes with its opposites, light and bri