Beautiful and bright used here to describe the young man, but they also tell us how the writer felt about the qualities this boy possessed. The qualities are “born to rule the storm”, “heroic blood”, “proud”, “brave despair”, “gallant child”, “noblest”, and “faithful”.

Here, the author is foreshadowing what will follow later on in the poem. She subtly emphasized “dead” by rhyming it with the second stanza’s “fled”. Of course, the poem did ended with the stanzas, “But the noblest thing which perished there, Was that young faithful heart.”, confirming that indeed the boy eventually lost his life along with the ship.