With A Forgetting About Preferences by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem With A Forgetting About Preferences that begins with:

I remember once having a preference for dogs.
But now I have a preference for cats....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab ccX XacdX dcbccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,5,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110010011 1111010011 101010010011101 111011 10101111011 10101001 0111011101 110101010 011101 101101001 10100011111110 10101111010 001110110100 000100110001101 1010100010 011101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • 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; i, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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