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Soft Calm Lord Byron Walks Beauty Explore X3

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And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that flow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
Back •'so soft, so calm, yet eloquent' rule of 3 where final thing in poem suggested as most important + intensifier 'so' 
•adj 'eloquent' associated with persuasiveness, a temptation image that is complimented by the soft sibilance, resembling the hissing of a snake that is emblematic of the Garden of Eden 
•thus speaker seems drawn to the sacrilegious light he sees in her 

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