This is an analysis of Shadow Of Nightmare by Clark Ashton Smith.
What gulf-ascended hand is this, that grips
My spirit as with chains, and from the sound…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XXXccX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101010011 1101011001 1101111001 1101010101 01010110111 0111010101 11110010101 010110001 1101110101 011111110 11110011100 0101010101 0101000101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
