Upon reading “She Walks in Beauty”, I was immediately drawn to and fascinated by the poem’s near-perfect meter and rhyme scheme. In crafting each stanza with the rhythmic and balanced iambic tetrameter, Bryon creates a satisfying beat, consistent and smooth, to underscore his description of a kind of other-worldly beauty. It’s both mimicry and paradox, that the rhythm is almost standard, when the beauty he writes about is so complex and unique. He uses a traditional form to talk about a woman who appears to be anything but run-of-the-mill. At the same time, the ease with which the lines carry the reader through the poem are almost graceful, a lilting, galloping rhythm. Enjambments, particularly in every other line of the first stanza, bring the reader through each line to the next. It’s satisfying to read, much like, I imagine, the subject of this poem is satisfying to look at. There’s also a certain distinct symmetry to the rhyme scheme. The poem maintains an ABABAB type of rhyme scheme throughout the entirety of the poem. It stays consistent, and, much like the meter, is deeply satisfying to read. As each stanza uses only two different rhyme sounds, Byron almost mimics the poem’s central theme of light and dark. Each line stands in stark contrast to the one preceding it, as the poem’s diction also builds upon its central imagery.