Campus Sonnets: Return - 1917

Stephen Vincent Benet 1898 (Bethlehem) – 1943 (New York City)



'The College will reopen Sept. -.'
`Catalogue'.

I was just aiming at the jagged hole
Torn in the yellow sandbags of their trench,
When something threw me sideways with a wrench,
And the skies seemed to shrivel like a scroll
And disappear . . . and propped against the bole
Of a big elm I lay, and watched the clouds
Float through the blue, deep sky in speckless crowds,
And I was clean again, and young, and whole.

Lord, what a dream that was! And what a doze
Waiting for Bill to come along to class!
I've cut it now - and he - Oh, hello, Fred!
Why, what's the matter? - here - don't be an ass,
Sit down and tell me! - What do you suppose?
I dreamed I . . . am I . . . wounded? 'You are dead.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX ABBAACCA DEFEDF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 701
Words 138
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 8, 6

Stephen Vincent Benet

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