Analysis of A Sunset
Clark Ashton Smith 1893 (Long Valley Caldera) – 1961 (Pacific Grove)
As blood from some enormous hurt
The sanguine sunset leapt;
Across it, like a dabbled skirt,
The hurrying tempest swept.
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 01011 01110101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 117 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 25, 2023
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