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

Time and abyss vaults
don't have samples of your beauty;…

Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcacXXb XcdX ddXa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011 11100110 11101001 10011111 010111010 11111110 101010010 1111010100 11100101 11110110 10100100111 1011010111 11101010 11101 010101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

your, and, you

Anaphora

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