This is an analysis of The City Of The Soul: Ii by Lord Alfred Douglas.

What shall we do, my soul, to please the King?
Seeing he hath no pleasure in the dance,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XcdXcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111110101 1011110001 11010100100 0101111101 0101110111 1111111100 1101110110 1101001110 1101011101 0101110101 1001110101 1111010100 1001011111 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14