Analysis of The Deaf Shrink
While you spilled your guts out the shrink scrawled a doodle.
He thought you must be nuts
as he probed your noodle.
He sat beyond your head retreating from the plight.
Like a two-way mirror
he watched from out of sight.
Delving deep and dirty you fully bared your soul.
Psychoanalysis
you hoped would make you whole.
There was no interchange while you lay on the couch.
You've rendered all the talk
receiving no avouch.
After fifty minutes he motioned toward the clock.
The hour is over
though you feel future-shock.
Diplomas on the walls state he's adroitly deft.
After countless sessions
of help you are bereft.
Scheme | AXA BCB DXD EXE FCF GXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011010 111111 111110 110111010101 101110 111111 101010110111 00100 111111 11101111101 110101 01011 1010101100101 010110 111101 010101110101 101010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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