Poetry - La Belle Dame Merci - John Keats

Iambic Pentameter
1. not every fourth line
  1. something is missing
'ail' / 'palely' / 'fever-dew'
1. love has made him sick
2. 'manna-dew' - she gave him the fever
'loitering'
1. no purpose - not what a knight should be
'faery' / 'elfin'
1. not human - supernatural
'dream' and 'dreamt'
1. repetition
2. becoming reality
'thrall'
1. slave
'sojourn'
1. waiting for her
2. drained of all energy
we only hear his perspective
'I set her on'
1. trying to control her
  1. control switches
'wild wild'
1. repetition
2. seductive
3. emotionally out of control
Ballad form
dream was a warning
first three stanzas not from the protaganist
'fading rose'
1. love is draining from him
'fragrant zone'
1. sexual connotations
2. making flowers for her
  1. wants to posses her and capture her
  2. emasculating
'sweet moan'
1. sexual
2. oxymoron
'woe betide!'
1. he regrets it
  1. it was a mistake
The beautiful lady without mecry
repetition of 'pale'
1. she has made others pale
he receives a warning about the girl in his dream
he was abandoned by her

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	Created by Zeb Summerfield over 7 years ago