Arms that are braceleted and white and bare (But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Elliot used strong contrast between white and essentially pure but when taking a closer look they are not as pure as they once seemed
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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table;
The rhyme scheme has a rhyming couplet referring to being in love, but is broken by a darker more startling image.
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