Poets’ Vocabulary stock-cupboards

Do you ever do this: read through the work of a favourite poet and list their preferred or re-occurring word choices? It’s quite illuminating to do so, like a shorthand guide to the poet’s thought process. For example Sylvia Plath is very monosyllabic, Derek Mahon highly polysyllabic.  If you have nothing better to do and no urgent poems to write you might like to try it…