This is an analysis of Avowal by Clark Ashton Smith.

Whatever alien fruits and changeling faces
And pleasances of mutable perfume…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXaaXba aXcXXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101001110010 1100010001 0100010110 010110101110 010001000010 1101101101 0111010101 11010111010 1101001101 11010101000 1101011001 11111001110 1001011000 1101100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14