Analysis of Shampoo



How little we think of what little can please,
What modest an item can take to appease.
A once angry woman through loss of her hair,
Gave that very reason for the lost will to care.

But anger and sadness it could never win,
For letting it do so would just be a sin.
Thus fight with all effort a mind could produce,
With purpose to never become a recluse.

The fight wasn't easy; it did take a while,
To put up with offers of sympathy smile.
But put up she did, with no guarantee,
Until evidence of winning, the eye it could see.

The baldness was beaten and hair did now grow,
Albeit the new growth the color of snow.
But what it now meant is shampoo was needed,
And that is the testimony that she had succeeded.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011111011 11011011101 01101011101 111010101111 11001011101 11011111101 11111001101 11011001001 01101011101 11111011001 111111101 0110011001111 01011001111 01001101011 11111101110 0110100111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 695
Words 139
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 29, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kev Green

Just a person who might have suffered more than his fair share of suffering but still lives to tell the tale. Found writing and writing found me. Everything I do is dedicated to my dear Wife and children Emma and Jamie and my mentor Rob Middlehurst. more…

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