SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY BY GEORGE GORDON Jaymie Rancourt Allyssa Wilson

LINE 1: “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;”

SIMILE: A COMPARISON USING LIKE OR AS She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

IMAGERY  He imagines this girl throughout the whole poem.

LINE 3: And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

PERSONIFICATION: ATTRIBUTION OF HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO THINGS, ABSTRACT IDEAS. And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

THE NOTEBOOK

LINES 7 TO 10 One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face;

METONYMY: A FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT SUBSTITUTES ONE WORD FOR ANOTHER THAT IS CLOSELY RELATED OR A WORD THAT DESCRIBE PART OF A WHOLE. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face;

TWILIGHT: SO THE LION FELL IN LOVE WITH THE LAMB…

RHYME SCHEME One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face;

NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE “Poem” About Janie

LINE Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how clear their dwelling place.

COSMIC: A VICTIM OF FATE  Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how clear their dwelling place.

ALFALFA SINGS TO DARLA

LINE And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft., so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

HYPERBOLE: EXAGGERATION  He over exaggerates her beauty and her elegance.

LINES But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below; A heart whose love is innocent!

SLANT RYHME: But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below; A heart whose love is innocent!