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Gaily bedight, a gallant knight are the first two lines of Edgar Allan Poe's poem Eldorado.

In this context, gaily bedight means brightly dressed. Gallant means brave. it's equivalent to a knight in shining armor but Poe needed it to rhyme.

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"Gaily bedight a gallant knight" suggests that the knight is richly adorned or dressed in a regal manner. The phrase captures the idea of elegance and grandeur associated with a chivalrous and brave knight.

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The following sentence presents the assonance figure of speech.

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