Analysis of A Footnote To Plato
The nature of being,
its whole and its parts
The nature of being,
its fits and its starts
The nature of being
the old and the new
The nature of being
—to me and to you
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
| Scheme | Ab Ab Ac Ac x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110 11011 010110 11011 010110 01001 010110 11011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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