A Phantasy Of Twilight by Clark Ashton Smith: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Phantasy Of Twilight that begins with:

Ere yet the soaring after-fire was flown,
I found a city in the twilight lone -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba XcXc ddeX ffXfXbbeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101011 1101000111 0101010101 1100100101 1101110001 0101110101 0101011101 1101000101 1001010011 11010101001 01010101001 1101010011 1111000101 11010000101 11001010101 11110101001 1101110101 1110110101 0101010101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Phantasy Of Twilight;
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  • history of its creation;
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