This is an analysis of Medusa by Clark Ashton Smith.
As drear and barren as the glooms of Death,
It lies, a windless land of livid dawns,…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXcbdedbbebcXfebgXbdbdbgbXghbfXhbfgbhb
- Stanza lengths: 41,
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 10010010001 11010100101 11110101001 0101010101 0101010101 1101010001 01001010101 1101110100 00101010111 01001011001 0101010101 1100010101 0111011101 11011110101 0101111101 1101111101 0101010101 01001010001 1101000100 1101110000 11001010001 0101010111 1100010101 1011000101 1110010101 0101011101 01010100101 1101010101 1001010001 01001111101 11010 10110 11111001001 100100101 0101100101 0101011101 10110110001 1001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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