This is an analysis of The King's Image by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
Of iron were his arms; they could have held
The need of half the kingdom up; and in…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXacd bbX XcXXdXbc
- Stanza lengths: 6,3,8,
- Metre: 0100011111 0101010110 0101010111 1101011101 1001010110 0101011111 1101110101 0101110101 0100011101 11010100010 0101010101 0101000101 1001110111 0101010011 1101111100 1111010111 10010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
of, his, clay, thy
Anaphora
the
