This is an analysis of The Chimera by Clark Ashton Smith.
O, who will slay the last chimera, Time?
Though Love and Death have many a cunning dart—…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba cXXc dbd ebe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 1101010101 11111100101 0101111101 110001101 1111111101 0101011101 1101010100 0101111101 1000101011001 0101110100 1101100001 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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