SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY Lord Byron was born on 22 January, 1788 in London and died in 19 April 1824 in Missolonghi,

Greece. He was among the most famous of the English Romantic poets; his contemporaries included Percy Shelley and John Keats. He was also a satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. His major works include Childe Harolds Pilgrimigage (1802-1818) and Don Juan (1819-1824). He died of fever and exposure while engaged in the Greek struggle for independence. He wrote SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY in 1814 and published in 1815 in HEBREW MELODIES. It is said that the poem was written about Mrs. Wilmot, Byrons cousin. Several months before author met and married his first wife, Anna Milbanke, Lord Byron attended a party at Lady Sitwells, and Byron met his cousin, the beautiful Mrs. Wilmot, and her beauty inspired the author. The author was inspired by the sight of his cousin and he became the essence of his poem about her. In that sense, the topic of poem is the beauty. Byrons friend James Webster has written: I did take him to Lady Sitwells Party in Seymour road. He there for the first time saw his cousin, the beautiful Mrs. Wilmot. When we returned to his rooms in the Albany, he said little, but desired Fletcher to give him a tumbler of brandy, which he drank at once to Mrs. Wilmots health, he retired to rest, and was. I heard afterwards, in a sad state all night. The next day he wrote those charming lines upon her, She walks in beauty.. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY is a lyrical poem. This poem is written in three stanzas and has eighteen lines, and the rhyme scheme is ABABAB, CDCDCD. EFEFEF. Words that rhymes in first stanza are night/light/bright and skies/eyes/denies. Throughout the poem, the common thread is the rhyming of the odd lines and the even ones (night-1/light3/light-5; skies-2/eyes-4/denies-6). This pattern is repeated throughout the second and third stanza. Each line is alternated with unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables and the meter is iambic tetrameter, each meter is comprised four feet per line.