she walks in beauty

"She Walks in Beauty" George Gordon Noel Byron's poem titled, "She Walks in Beauty," plainly put, is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features. The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable that allows for a rhythm to be set by the reader and can be clearly seen when one looks at a line: She walks / in beau / ty like / the night. …

…characteristics, "She Walks in Beauty" is world renowned for its powerful description. Not only does it describe a woman's physical beauty, but also her interior strengths. Works Cited Eliot, T.S., "Byron," in On Poetry and Poets, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1957, p.224. Martin, L.C., in Byron's Lyrics, The University of Nottingham, 1948, pp. 24-25. Leung, Mathew, preface to Poetry of Byron, by Lord Byron, Macmillian, 1881, Reprinted as "Byron, "in Essays in Criticism, Dutton, 1964, pp. 312-30.