This is an analysis of the poem Choice that begins with:
I'd rather have the thought of you
To hold against my heart, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdcXb adacaaXbb XeaaffeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010111 11000101 01110 1101010 00101010 11010001 011111 11010101 011111 11010101 01110 11010101 01010101 010101010101000 11010010 010101 1101110 101101 11010111 11110111 010101 110101 01110111 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; forever is repeated.
The author used the same word i'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Choice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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