This is an analysis of The Tears Of Lilith by Clark Ashton Smith.

O lovely demon, half-divine!
Hemlock and hydromel and gall,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaa bcbX cXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 11110011 10110011 10011101 11111101 001111010 11110111 01011000 110101110 11011101 010111010 110101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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