This is an analysis of Mirrors by Clark Ashton Smith.
Mirrors of steel or silver, gold or glass antique!
Whether in melancholy marble palaces…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXXa bccbcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 100111011101 100101010100 0111110101000 010111100011 110101110101 010011100100 011001010100 100101100101 0101001010101 10010010011 110101010001 101101110101 110101110101 101101011100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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