| Front | Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty Explore: x3 A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! |
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| Back | •'below' reference to hell/the dead => she is confident that she is predestined for heaven => appropriate given its iambic tetrameter, which is found in hymns •'love is innocent' not romantic or sexual, just admiring her aesthetically (cousin's wife therefore inappropriate?)•message => it's hard to attain such attraction without love, which is astonishingly chaste given Byron's reputation of licentiousness •Arguably '!' end-stop reflects his frustation towards these state of affairs |
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