This is an analysis of A Phantasy Of Twilight by Clark Ashton Smith.

Ere yet the soaring after-fire was flown,
I found a city in the twilight lone -…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaba XcXc ddeX ffXfXbbeb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11010101011 1101000111 0101010101 1100100101 1101110001 0101110101 0101011101 1101000101 1001010011 11010101001 01010101001 1101010011 1111000101 11010000101 11001010101 11110101001 1101110101 1110110101 0101010101 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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