This is an analysis of Exorcism by Clark Ashton Smith.

Like ghosts returning stealthily
From those grey lands…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcdeb bXbcaXeeXXfdf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,13,
  • Metre: 11010100 0111 1001001010 1001111 010010101001 010101011101 1101001 00111010101 111111 011010011000 0111110111 11 11001011001010 1100101100001 1100111110 110111 110100110001 110101 01001110000 11110101010 1111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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