This is an analysis of the poem To George Sterling (His) that begins with:
His song shall waken the dull-sleeping throng
That dreams of sullen and of earth-bound things;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXbcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111001101 1101010111 11010100101 1011000101 01010100001 11001000101 0110010101011 1101001001 1101000111 1001001001 1100110101 0101010111 10010101010 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
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More information about poems by Clark Ashton Smith
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