In the story she is a faery, which is most popularly defined as a human size "fairy."
There is definite answer to who she really is, Keats leaves this for you to decide.
I think she represents love (in general) and the Romantics' infactuation with the unattainable and the longing to escape.
Romantics: writers of the Romantic era
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The cast of La Belle Dame Sans Merci - 2011 includes: Graeme Donaldson as John Ashleigh Gloyne as Mary Ian Lawlor as Demon Sara Rose Dickson as La Belle Dame
John Keats
The rhyme scheme of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats is ABABCB.
the lady without mercy/pity
The cast of La belle dame sans merci - 1920 includes: Tania Daleyme as Lola de Sandoval Lucien Glen as Lucien Louis Monfils
The cast of La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats - 1996 includes: Annie Carpenter Elizabeth Jasicki Joseph Millson
The beautiful lady without pity is an English equivalent of 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' by English poet John Keats [October 31, 1795-February 23, 1821].
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imagery, repetition, personification, alitteration
mercy or pity in Englsh and merci in French mean about the same. "La belle dame sans merci" -- John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821)