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Explication of Lord Byron’s “She Walks In Beauty” Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, or Lord Byron as he preferred to be called, was a known philanderer with an insatiable appetite. In letters to Percy Shelley, he told of short-lived romances with wo ....

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.... and gives the reader a sense of consistency that allows them to focus more on the woman than the wording of the poem. The alternating rhyme scheme in all three sestets gives the poem its consistent tone. “She walks in beauty, like the night,” (1) rhyming with “And all that’s best of dark and bright,” (3) makes the poem easier to remember and pleasing to the reader’s eyes and ears. The iambic tetrameter, when read aloud, guides the reader along in such a way that the poem maintains a smooth and graceful sound. “Of cloudless climes and starry skies,” (2) is more pleasant when read with the proper accen ....