Analysis of Is It Really OCD?



Is It Really OCD? ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 23, 2023

OCD never officially diagnosed
All I know is what I know
If you mess at all with my symmetry
Out my apartment your behind will go
If you deign to pick up a magazine
So perfect in its position
Then you throw it back askew, oh horrors!
Leave now and go to perdition!
Those pillows on my sofa you see
Symmetrical and neatly in their place
You toss around and chaos ensues
Are you not even part of the human race?
OCD, not sure but as I read my words
a revelation is born in my mind
Perhaps no OCD have I at all 
I’m just a pain in everyone’s behind!


Scheme AAX ABCBXXXBCDXDXAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 101011 1 110010001 1111111 1111111100 1101010111 111111010 10101010 1111101110 110111 110111011 0100010011 110101001 11110110101 111111111 001011011 01111111 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 609
Words 128
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 16
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 233
Words per stanza (avg) 62

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OCD vs. super-sensitive about organization

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Written on July 23, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 23, 2023

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Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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