This is an analysis of The Blindness Of Orion by Clark Ashton Smith.
So blind Orion, groping for the morn
With eyes uplift whereon forever hung…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccaaXddXeafXdXdada cefXcecXebdeXeae
- Stanza lengths: 20,16,
- Metre: 1101010101 0110100101 1001010101 1101110101 11011100101 1101010101 11001110001 1110010101 0101011101 1101010101 100010110010 11001010101 1001010100 0101001101 1001011111 11010100101 0101010001 01010101001 11010010001 0101010 111 1101010101 0101010001 01010111110 1100110101 1101010100 10010010101 1101010101 1101110011 010111101010 0101010101 0101010101 010110100101 01011111110 1101010101 010100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
to, and, of, the

