This is an analysis of The Princes' Quest - Part The Seventh by William Watson.
But Sleep, who makes a mist about the sense,
Doth ope the eyelids of the soul, and thence…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccdeeffgg hXbbhXiijjjdbbhh kkddkkXahhXlffjXff ddddaammaanniiffd dddccgghhkkaallookkkkiicccciikk ffdaffeXbpeeeebbcckkXldddd bbnneeqqXabblXeebbnnccggeXeddbpffcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,16,18,17,31,26,35,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101100111 10010011101 1101000101 1101111111 011110101 0 10 0011101 01011100111 1101010101 1001010111 1111001101 10010101101 1011110111 0101010110 1100011101 1001010101 1001010101 0100011011 11001101001 0111000101 10111101110 011101010110 10 0 1010101 1011010101 1101111001 1110010001 1101010101 0100010001 0111011101 0111000101 1101010101 10010111001 11010101000 1101010101 1100010101 0101011101 000101010 01010110101 1111110101 0101110100 01010110010 11010111110 1011010101 11001010001 1101010101 1111010011 01001110011 01111111001 1111111101 1011000101 01011010100 1101000101 01110111011 1011010101 1011010111 0101110001 11010111001 1101101101 01001011101 0101010101 1001110101 1101010101 1001010000 11010101001 0101010101 1100010101 1001110101 0100010111 1011010101 1000100101 0101010111 1001010101 11001110111 1111010101 1111010111 1011110101 1011010101 1100111101 0101010111 0101010101 10101111111 1111010101 1111110111 11011001001 1001010101 0101010001 0111110111 0101100101 11011101001 11110001001 1001110101 1101010001 11010100100 0111111101 01010101101 1101011101 0001010111 01010100101 1011010101 1111011100 1111010101 01001000100 11010111001 1101100101 0100010101 11110100101 0111111101 0100011110 1101110111 0101100101 1111010101 0111110001 010010111100 1111010001 0101010110 0111010100 110101111 1111010001 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1100011001 11001100101 1101110001 0101110001 1111010101 1101011100 1100010111 1111111001 1101011101 1101110111 01010100100 01011110001 0100110111 0100110101 1101111111 1101010101 10111110111 1001011101 1100010111 1101010101 0111111111 0101110111 101101100001 0101000101 1111110111 1101001101 1101010100 1101010011 1101110101 1000010010101 1100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 157
Repeated words/phrases
of, that, had, to, and, he
Anaphora
and, the
