This is an analysis of Sonnet For The Psychoanalysts by Clark Ashton Smith.

When sleep dissolved that super-Freudian dream
where featherless harpies mated while they fed,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabccXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11011101001 11001010111 1111110101 0111011111 10010101001 0101110101 0111010011 1100100111 1101010101 0100111101 1101110101 0111010011 110101110 0100110100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14