| Front | John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad Explore: x2 IV I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful - a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild. |
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| Back | •Contrast of appearance and reality is most evident in the alternation from 3rd person narrative to 1st person, especially as the latter adopts fantasy lexical sets; 'faery' •Caesura 'full beautiful -' creates pause and a slower deliberation; also makes the poem and his ideas more disjointed and unbalanced. |
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