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Beauty Lord Byron Walks Form Elaboration Prose Inadequate

Front Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty
Form + elaboration
Back •Prose is inadequate for description of such an abstract beauty, so the speaker must attempt to use verse
•Despite lyric, expressing her beauty without professing his own emotions as suppresses his sexual desire i.e. by limiting the blazon to her facial features

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