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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