Analysis of Perfect Mate



Looking for the perfect mate, she stalled at the starting gate
since none did her heart pulsate
or her passion satiate.
Suitors tried to inculcate. Many to ingratiate
and then to initiate
or even indoctrinate.
She would simply vacillate between the one to cultivate
and consider second rate
or even appreciate.
When she did anticipate her interest would dissipate
and quickly deliberate
or even interpellate.
Ancient now we carbon date her attempts to reinstate
those she chose to deprecate
or even emancipate.
It is clearly far too late to again interrelate.
So she must resign to fate,
no more to participate.


Scheme AAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAA
Poetic Form
Metre 10100111110101 111011 10101 101110101010 011010 1101 1110100101110 0010101 110010 111010010110 0100100 1101 1011101001101 111110 110010 1110111101001 1110111 111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 101
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 501
Words per stanza (avg) 101
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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