This is an analysis of The Dream-Bridge by Clark Ashton Smith.

All drear and barren seemed the hours,
That passed rain-swept and tempest-blown.…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb aaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 111101010 11111101 01111101 01011101 110101010 01110111 110010111 01100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8