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
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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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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