This is an analysis of Lethe (I) by Clark Ashton Smith.

I flow beneath the columns that upbear
The world, and all of heaven and limbo and hell;…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaab cdceed
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101010110 011101011011 1011111101 1101001101 1101011101 01001110101 00101110101 1101110101 0101011101 1111011001 11110100101 1111110101 111110001001 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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