This is an analysis of Plum-Flowers by Clark Ashton Smith.

On boughs a-tremble with the rain,
The blown white flowers of the plum…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aba bab aXX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,
  • Metre: 11010001 01110001 11010101 111100111 01110101 01110111 11010101 11111101 11010110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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