This is an analysis of Requiescat by Clark Ashton Smith.

What was Love's worth,
Who lived with the roses ?—…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcb XdXd eeeeXcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1111 110010 1101 101100 11110 10010 10010 10110 10010 1111 11110 1101 10110 0111 11010 1011 11010 1111 11110 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

that

Anaphora

love

Anadiplosis

thunder