This is an analysis of The Princes' Quest - Part The Tenth by William Watson.
That night within the City of Youth there stood
Musicians playing to the multitude…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd e eeFggfhhg eefeefhhe aXiffXeeF X aaeiiejjX kkakkaddk bbkaakbba X iijggjaai hheiieiii jjXhhfiiX
- Stanza lengths: 10,1,9,9,9,1,9,9,9,1,9,9,9,
- Metre: 11010100111 0101000101 11001110100 11001110101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010101 10011111001 1001110101 1100110111 1 1101111101 11110111001 1101110111 1011010101 1011010100 10110100101 1101110101 11001110101 0111011101 1001111011 0101110111 01110111101 1110110101 10010111001 1101010111 10111010101 1001110111 01101110101 1111010101 0101011000 01011010001 1110111111 1101010001 1111011100 1011101101 10110111001 1101110111 1 1111110101 1111111111 1101011101 1101011111 1101010111 1001010101 1101110111 0101110101 1100111100 10001011101 0101000111 1111010101 01011101001 1101000101 1001110101 1101011100 1011011111 111000000101 1111010101 1111110111 01010101011 1101110101 0111110101 1101010111 1100010011 1101001111 1101001101 1 11111111110 11010001010 1001010101 1111110111 010010101111 0111010101 1011011111 01010111011 0101011100 1011010101 1111111101 1101010111 1100011100 1001000101 1101010111 1111110101 1001000101 1001001101 110010010001 101100101001 1111110110 1101010101 1111010101 0101111011 01110101010 11011001010 110111110010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 94
Repeated words/phrases
and, she, of, to, winds
Anaphora
chanting, the, and, full, she
