This is an analysis of the poem A Thought Or Two On Reading Pomfret's that begins with:

I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring,
A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcccccccddeefc ggbbffhhcXbbhhiieejjcceecfkk lljmeeeeeennoocXhhcchhcccXaaeeppbbhhooeebbjjfXjjffhhhbbjXmXfeekkhhffcccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,28,72,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010101000001 0101010101 1101110111 1111010100 1111111101 0101111100 1101011111 0111001101 1100001101 11011111010 1101110101 1001110011 0101110101 1111110101 1011110101 1110010111 1101110100 11001010101 1111111111 1101011111 1101111101 11110101001 11010100001 11110101010 010101000010 01010111110 1111111101 1101111111 0111110111 1111010101 1011111110 1101011111 1001000111 1001000101 111001010111 1110011111 0110011111 0011011101 0101110101 0101110111 1111010101 01110010101 10111110101 1111111101 01101111101 1111011101 0101011101 1101010111 10001010100 0111111111 1101110101 0101011111 1011010101 1111010101 0101101101 1111111001 110101010011 1111011111 1100001111111 11110011111 1111111100 1101011011 1100011101 11010100101 0101110001 1001110111 0111110101 1101110101 1001010101 11110111010 10110100110 1101010001 1111010101 10110111010 11011111010 0101011101 110011111 1111011101 1111110101 0111111111 1111011101 1001010101 1001110101 0111010101 1111100100 1101110011 1111010101 1110111101 1111010101 110001110101 10111111101000 10110000110 1101010101 1111011001 1100010111 11000100111 1011001101 1100011101 1100111101 11110101001 1011011111 011100110010 11001111100 1101111111 1100111101 1111000101 0101011101 0111011101 1101011101 1011001101 0101110011 0111111101 1101111101 1111011001 1111111001 0101110101 1111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1801
  • Average number of words per stanza: 332
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and, to, with, i, it, his, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words veranda'd, that, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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