This is an analysis of Cycles by Clark Ashton Smith.

The sorcerer departs . . . and his high tower is drowned
Slowly by low flat communal seas that level all . . .…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdeced
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0100011011001 1011101011101 110100010111 000101110101 1001001010011 1011001010101 101010100101001 010100010101 1101100101110 0100101011101 0111100101010 010110001010 1101010100110 110111000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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