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Beauty Dark Mellowed Tender Light Lord Byron Walks

Front Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty
Explore: x4
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies
Back •contrast alternating from light and dark may show he is overwhelmed
•'Thus mellowed to that tender light' + 'gaudy day' conveys her beauty as superior to nature itself
•Doesnt obsesses with the superficiality of her appareance - there is an atypical mental appreciation 
•Holy lexical set - emphasises how virtuous she is
•Metrical inversion at 'meet in' to illustrate the union?

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