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?…

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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