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Original poem reprinted online here:  "Beauty" by Elinor Morton Wylie Originally read: January 16, 2013 More information about the Poet: Elinor Morton Wylie So I read this poem after "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron ; however, I don't remember if I analyzed them at the same time.  Judging by the line marks, I'm pretty sure no.  Anyway, reading the poem and then thinking about what Byron wrote brought a new perspective for me. Form first, this poem is written in quatrains with an alternating rhyme scheme (rhyme scheme similar to Byron), and still the technique.  There's something separate and off in the poem. Let me write down what I first thought about the poem: "Summary time!  If stanza 3 was put in place in stanza 1 -- I think the poem would be less of a definition of beauty but how beauty is defined." Although I don't agree with past me, I do see the point.  If I looked at this poem as a definition poem (title being the word to be def...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) Originally read: January 16, 2013 More information about the Poet:  George Gordon Byron What I didn't write in my notes (and I just realized this after rereading this poem) is that the poem is iambic octameter with three sestets with an alternating rhyme scheme ( ababab, cdcdcd, efefef) .  What does that mean to the poem?  There's something off with the poem. Not in the sense of meaning, but the poem seems "incomplete" form wise.  The "usual"  form is iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets,  octaves (maybe even quatrains).  I'm probably looking too much into it, but form informs sound and interpretation. With that being written, the most important line of the poem is deciphering the initial simile, "She walks in beauty like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies."  So this is a dumb point for me to address, but the simile can refer t...