This is an analysis of The Temptation by Clark Ashton Smith.
In the close and clinging night,
When the rosy-bellied moon…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcacbbdedeccdfbbdfgbbgbbcXXXhheXbeXebXXddXXhaXhiXiaa ggfXXfjjffdeedhhahaehXeX X
- Stanza lengths: 54,24,1,
- Metre: 0011101 1010101 1010001 11111010 1111101 00110010 11111010 10101110 10111010 11111010 10101110 10101010 0111100 1010100 10101010 0011101 1101111 1001101 10111010 1010101 1010111 10101110 11101110 1010101 1000101 1010101 1110100 1110100 10101100 10111010 10101010 10101010 10111010 101010 1110101 11001010 101100 11101010 1010101 10110010 10111010 11101010 10101010 11101010 1110000 10111010 1111100 11101000 01101010 11101011 00101000 1011011 1100101 11111101 1110101 0011101 10110110 1011100 1001100 10111010 1001111 1110101 1110101 01100101 11101010 11101010 10101010 101001110 10111101 1010101 1011101 10001110 1010101 10111010 101010010 10111010 00101010 10101010 01011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 79
Repeated words/phrases
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