This is an analysis of Metaphor by Clark Ashton Smith.

You are the stately sunset,
Departing with a hundred flames of amber…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbXccXAXabXX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1101011 01000101010 0101000101 10110 110111010001 1001010 1101011 1101 1001010101 101101010 11010100101 000111010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12