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

What stern prenatal palls occlude from us
Once-dominant Signs, once-rampant arms! How strait…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba abba acXcaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
  • Metre: 1101011001 11001110111 0101010101 1101011100 0111010100 0101110111 0101010101 1010011100 0011010101 010111001001 1101010110 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14