This is an analysis of The Dream-God's Realm by Clark Ashton Smith.

I wandered down Sleep's vast and sunless vale,
Where silence and Cimmerian darkness lay…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXdcXd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101111101 1101100101 1101110111 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 11011011001 1101010111 1101000101 11001010101 1101011011 11110101001 01110101110 0111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14