The verse, as utterances by characters tossed about by passion and ambition as they move against a background of court intrigue, battles and personal confrontations, surpasses in many places the grandeur of the poetry of the earlier work. As a matter of fact, the line are more sinewy and substantial, always equal to the task of allowing us insights into the characters and the situations in which the plot embroil them. Given all the conventions and the cramping limitations had been able to create an artistically intricate and absorbing study of power and passion.