Lord Byron's Poems

In “She Walks in Beauty”, how does Lord Byron use parallelism, rhyme, and meter to enhance the experience of his poetry?

In “She Walks in Beauty”, how does Lord Byron use parallelism, rhyme, and meter to enhance the experience of his poetry?

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“She Walks in Beauty” is written in iambic tetrameter, “a meter commonly found in hymns and associated with ‘sincerity’ and ‘simplicity’” (Moran 2). Byron’s chosen meter conveys to the reader both his purity of intent (there is but one subject for this poem, the lady’s virtuous beauty) and a poetic parallel to his subject (the lady’s beauty arises from her purity or simplicity of nature). It is an astonishingly chaste poem given its author’s reputation for licentiousness, lust, and debauchery.

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