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;…

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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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