This is an analysis of the poem Campus Sonnets: Before An Examination that begins with:
The little letters dance across the page,
Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba bbcbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010101 1101110101 1001010111 1011010101 10110000111 1101010101 1001110101 1101100111 0111111111 0101110001 1101010111 1101110101 1111010101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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