This is an analysis of The World by Clark Ashton Smith.
The world is world of ups and downs,
A world of smiles and frowns.…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcd eeffXXggbb cdhhii
- Stanza lengths: 6,10,6,
- Metre: 01010111 010111 0111001 1101000101 11101010 110011010011 0110001010 1010010110 110101 1101101 111011 01101 1101111110 1101001110 0010101110101 110110011101 110111010 1101001011 1110111 111111 1100101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, world, we
Anaphora
and, we, when
