This is an analysis of The Refuge Of Beauty by Clark Ashton Smith.

From regions of the sun's half-dreamt decay,
All day the cruel rain strikes darkly down;…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc aXe ffe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 0100011101 1101011101 1001110111 1011010111 1011011100 11010100001 1101111001 0111000101 0111110101 1101110100 1111011101 010110101 10001110100 1101000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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