This is an analysis of The Autumn Lake by Clark Ashton Smith.

O sapphire lake amid autumnal mountains,
With fire of aspens round about you burning,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbX acca
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 110010101010 010010101110 11111101010 0101110 01011101010 01010111010 01011111010 0111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the