Lady
Diamond

The poem is
divided in 13 quatrain in alternate rhyme.

In the
first stanza are introduced the main characters: a king and his daughter. The
two character are underlines with the repetition of the word "king" and the
assonance between "daughter", "dear", "lady" and "Diamond".

In the
second stanza is introduced the third character of the story, the kitchen boy. He
is described as a servant, but "muckle", the same word used to described the
king, to underline the similarity of their characters. It's also said that the
princess "and she loved him long and she loved him aye". This repetition shows
the importance of the boy for the princess, also because this line is a lot
longer than the others.

On the
third stanza is described the pregnancy of the princess, underlines with the  alliteration "when twenty weeks were" , which
underlines the 5 mouths passed, and so the impossibility to hide her pregnancy

On the fourth
stanza the king discovered there is something wrong with his daughter and he is
described like a ghost, to underline his presence, that "haunt" the princess's
room and thought.

On the sixth
stanza, the king order to kill the kitchen boy. His wrath is underlines with
the assonances "me my marry men" and "by thirty and by three"

On the
tenth stanza, the suffer of lady Diamond for the death of the kitchen boy is
underline by the incremental repetition of "come to me, my honey, my heart" and
its alliteration with "come to me, my joy"