This is an analysis of Campus Sonnets: May Morning by Stephen Vincent Benet.

I lie stretched out upon the window-seat
And doze, and read a page or two, and doze,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaabba cdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111011111 1101110111 1101011111 0011010011 0101010101 1101111111 0101010101 00010110010 1101011111 11010111010 1111010001 1101010101 10001100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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