Front | Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty Explore: x3 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, |
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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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