This is an analysis of The Phoenix by Clark Ashton Smith.

I, I alone have seen the Phoenix fail,
His regal wings their vibrant glories vail…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcdeeffcdbbff
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1101110101 0101110101 01001010101 0101000111 1101110101 01001011101 0101011111 1101110100 11010010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101010111 0100010101 1101010100 0111011101 01110100101 0101110101 110101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

i, and, to

Anaphora

has