This is an analysis of Shapes In The Sunset by Clark Ashton Smith.
Daylong was my slumber. At the sunset,
Wakening, I beheld the clouds, a hundred…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcd bebd XXXX eXfX XdeX bXbf XbXd cadX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111101011 10011001010 1010111010 1010010 1000101110 100101001010 0111101010 101110 1010101000 1011101010 111011010100 101010 1011101010 1010100010 1011101010 101010 1010101010 1010101010 1010111010 101010 1010101010 101010010 1011101111 001010 1011100110 1001001010 1000111010 101010 1010111010 10101111111 101111110 111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
