This is an analysis of The Flight Of Azrael by Clark Ashton Smith.
Scene: an immense and darkling plain, remotely lit by the sunset of the last day. Two demons, passing from the interstellar deep, have paused on an isolated hill-top.
First Demon…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X a bcdebfcagX a hXfiXXjfcgjcjdedjfhiiijb
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,10,1,24,
- Metre: 110111010101101100111101000101011111101011 110 1100110011 10011000010 1001011100 0101010101 100100001 0010010101 11001010101 0100110001 1101011100 010101 1010 0001 0101010111 1101110011 11010001001 010101010 01001011100 0101010101 0111010001 1110100001 1101011100 1101110101 01111110101 11010010100 1101010001 1101010110 1100010101 1111100101 0101010001 1001101111 1111010111 00110100011 0111010101 101100100001 0111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
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