This is an analysis of And These--Are These Indeed The Rnd by William Watson.
And these-are these indeed the end,
This grinning skull, this heavy loam?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 01010101 11110111 11010101 11110101 11110101 11110110 10110110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8