Analysis of Polka Dots
Postmodernists like Rohrschach blots
But painters prefer polka dots,
But shaking paint just right
So dots stay round and tight
Is like tying needles in knots.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 1111 11001101 110111 111101 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 165 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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