def get_poem_text(poem_container_soup):
  """Read in a soup object containing a poem and return the poem plaintext"""
  poem_text = ""
  poem_soup = poem_container_soup.findAll("div", { "class" : "poem" } )[0]

  for node in poem_soup.findAll('p'):
    poem_text += ''.join(node.findAll(text=True)) + "\n\n"
  
  return poem_text