This is an analysis of Give Me Your Lips by Clark Ashton Smith.

Give me your lips:
Like to some scarlet fruit of Paradise…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AabccabddcdbAeXaccacee
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 1111 1011010101 11010101 110111 1101010 10001110101 11010111 1101010 11000101110 01010101010 010 11010010101 1111 1111110111 111100 11100010101 111010101 1101110101 110110101 111101 11010101011 111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

to, wine, fire, of, nor

Anaphora

to