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'La Belle Dame sans Marci' by
John Keats
- form and structure
- form of a
traditional folk
ballad
- broke
into 12
quatrains
- the story of one event
and the repetition of
ideas and refrains
- broke
into 12
quatrains
- iambic tetrameter
- one unstressed
syllable, followed by
a stressed syllable
- tetrameter (4
iambs per line)
- one unstressed
syllable, followed by
a stressed syllable
- last line of each stanza is
shorter because it is
punching into the next
stanza
- form of a
traditional folk
ballad
- "Alone and palely loitering", a knight tells
of his meeting with a beautiful,
mysterious woman. She seduces him into
riding away with her to a magical place,
leaving the reality of this world behind.
- it is suggested through
out the poem that the
man is in a dream which is
magical
- and there she
lulled me asleep
- and there she
lulled me asleep
- it is suggested through
out the poem that the
man is in a dream which is
magical
- langugae
- title translates as
'the beautiful lady
without mercy'
- creates an ominous tone
right from the beginning as
this is not what the reader
might traditionally expect
from a courtly ballad.
- creates an ominous tone
right from the beginning as
this is not what the reader
might traditionally expect
from a courtly ballad.
- "Alone and palely
loitering" suggests
suggests the lonely,
desolate surroundings.
- "haggard" and "woe-begone" to describe
the knight which highlights how deathly and
drawn he looks.
- Webegin to get
an impression of
her seductive
nature from the
line, "And her
eyes were wild."
- Repitition
- at the beginning and the
end shows he hasn't
moved as he still where
he was when he went to
sleep
- rhyming scheme
- regular (ABCB)
- regular (ABCB)
- at the beginning and the
end shows he hasn't
moved as he still where
he was when he went to
sleep
- title translates as
'the beautiful lady
without mercy'
- themes
- love
- between the man and
the 'magical creature'
- between the man and
the 'magical creature'
- supernatural
- the woman in
his 'dream' is
strange and
different
- the woman in
his 'dream' is
strange and
different
- dreams/reality
- the man is in a
supposed dream
and is then pulled
out back to reality
- the man is in a
supposed dream
and is then pulled
out back to reality
- abandonment/loss
- the man is alone at the end of the
poem which suggests he has been
abandoned by the woman in his
'dream'
- the man is alone at the end of the
poem which suggests he has been
abandoned by the woman in his
'dream'
- love
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