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La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad written by John Keats which describes a romantic encounter between a knight and a beautiful but supernaturally captivating and mysterious woman. The two characteristics of the ballad are its ro-mantic and melancholic tone.

The ballad has a ro-mantic tone with vivid descriptions of the lady's beauty and the knight's in- fatuation with her.

The poem also carries a melancholic atmosphere as it portrays the knight's heart  break and the fleeting nature of in-fatuatuin

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