Analysis of Thank You Dr. Spock



Over parenting…
the child undone

A cardinal sin
—lost millennium

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 10100 0101 01001 10100 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 92
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 4
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Submitted by sage48 on April 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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