This is an analysis of the poem Choices From Which To Choose that begins with:
Choices from which to choose,
Does not end one's sense of need....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCd ABBeA eX ABBCeA db AbAXAba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,2,6,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 1111101 110010111 010101 010 100101 1111101 110010111 0101010 10101000101 10 0101 100101 1111101 110010111 010101 10 10101000101 001010 101010101 100101 1 10101000101 100101 1 101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word choices at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Choices From Which To Choose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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