This is an analysis of Desert Dweller by Clark Ashton Smith.
There is no room in any town (he said)
To house the towering hugeness of my dream.…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ded eae afX fgf gcg XfXXf
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Metre: 1011010111 010100100011 0101010101 1101010101 1011010101 11110110101 1101010101 1101111110 0101010101 1101101111 10001110101 1101111100 1101010011 1111011101 0101010011 1111010101 0111010111 01010101100 1001011101 11010001001 0101010011 1001010101 0101010011 0101011101 1101010011 0101011111 0101110101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 28
Anaphora
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