Analysis of Campus Sonnets: 3. May Morning
Stephen Vincent Benet 1898 (Bethlehem) – 1943 (New York City)
I lie stretched out upon the window-seat
And doze, and read a page or two, and doze,
And feel the air like water on me close,
Great waves of sunny air that lip and beat
With a small noise, monotonous and sweet,
Against the window -- and the scent of cool,
Frail flowers by some brown and dew-drenched pool
Possesses me from drowsy head to feet.
This is the time of all-sufficing laughter
At idiotic things some one has done,
And there is neither past nor vague hereafter.
And all your body stretches in the sun
And drinks the light in like a liquid thing;
Filled with the divine languor of late spring.
Scheme | AXXAABBA CDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 0101011101 0101110111 1111011101 1011010001 0101000111 1101110111 0101110111 110111110 101011111 01110111010 0111010001 0101010101 110011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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