This is an analysis of Campus Sonnets: Before An Examination by Stephen Vincent Benet.
The little letters dance across the page,
Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba bbcbbc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101110101 1001010111 1011010101 10110000111 1101010101 1001110101 1101100111 0111111111 0101110001 1101010111 1101110101 1111010101 1101001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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