This is an analysis of Cloudland by Clark Ashton Smith.

A faery land is this that far and high
And all suffused with tints of pearl and rose,…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0101001111 1101010111 0101011111 1011101111 111111101 0111000101 0101010101 0111010101 0111010111 0101110011 0101010101 1111001101 101011101 1101110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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