Analysis of Platonic



It seems quite ironic

To call it platonic

Now that they're having a child


Scheme A A X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (33%)
Metre 111010 111010 1111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 20
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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