This is an analysis of Death by Clark Ashton Smith.

Not as a tyrant cruel, hard and cold,
A monarch unrelenting and severe,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccdede
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010111 0111010101 1101110101 1101010011 0101110101 0101110101 0111111101 1101011001 1101111111 0111010101 11010100001 10001010101 1101110100 0111100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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