This is an analysis of The Princes' Qust - Part The Fourth by William Watson.
That night he dreamed that over him there stole
A change miraculous, whereby his soul…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcddeebX ddXXddbcaaffggddbbfX aahhbcddiiggjj dd jjeeXjddffggddjX kkXlmmXfeeggfXlX ccggdXeeccbcjjggggiiXfjjkkdX dddd kknnjjllcbdd
- Stanza lengths: 10,20,14,2,16,16,28,4,12,
- Metre: 1111110111 0101000101 1100010101 1101010101 1001111101 0101110011 1101011101 1101111111 1101110001 0101010001 1101111101 0111100101 1110110101 01010110111 1101011111 1111110111 111110111 1101000110 01010011111 01000010100 1111010010 1101111101 1101110001 01110101001 1111011111 01111101001 1101010101 1100100111 1111110101 01001010100 1001011101 1101011111 1011010100 1111111100 1101010101 1111110111 1101011111 0111010101 11010101101 1111010100 01000110101 0101010111 1011111100 0100101111 1101111111 0111110100 1011011101 0101010101 0111100101 1111001101 1111010001 10110011101 011111011 10010011111 0101010101 0111010001 0101010111 101010011001 01001101101 1001010100 1111000101 0101010101 1101011111 0111010111 100100010 01010111001 0101011101 0101010101 1111110100 1101101101 10110011111 0101110101 1111010101 11110110111 1101101100 0101000100 11010100111 1110010011 1101110111 1111110101 1101110101 1111110111 1111011101 1111010111 1101010001 1001000101 10010101000 01110010100 0111010111 010110101 0101011101 0111011111 01110101001 11011111011 010101011 1101111001 0101001101 1111010001 0101010100 11010010101 1101011111 01001011111 0111110111 1001010111 1101110101 0101010011 1101010111 1100110111 11001110101 0101011111 1101011111 1111010101 1101010101 0101110111 110011100111 1100010001 0100101101 0101001111 1101010111 1101010101 1111011101 1101011001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 122
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, thou, i, it
Anaphora
and, his
