This is an analysis of The Summer Moon by Clark Ashton Smith.

How is it, O moon, that melting
Unstintedly, prodigally,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcbXaXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10011110 10001000 1011100 1110100 110101 11011001 1111110 1010101 1001100 001001010 100111 1110101 1111101 00101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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