This is an analysis of A Dream Of Beauty by Clark Ashton Smith.

I dreamed that each most lovely, perfect thing
That nature hath, of sound and form and hue—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccXc ddefef
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111110011 1101011111 01010110001 0111000111 1001111101 1001011101 0101010111 1101011001 0101011101 1101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1111011100 1101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the