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

Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling
From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc bdXddd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 01111100110 0101011101 10010101110 1101111101 0101011001 11110101010 1001011111 11110101110 11011101110 0111011101 0101010010100 10111100111 1011111101 0111010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

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