This is an analysis of the poem Campus Sonnets: Talk that begins with:
Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling
From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc bdXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01111100110 0101011101 10010101110 1101111101 0101011001 11110101010 1001011111 11110101110 11011101110 0111011101 0101010010100 10111100111 1011111101 0111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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.
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