Analysis of A Dentist and a Manicurist

Ed Riederich 1974 (United States)



A dentist and manicurist married
They fought tooth and nail
The weirdest part of it all
Is the dentist worked by braille 

See the dentist was blind 
And the manicurist smelled foul
But it just blows my mind
How the dentist did root canals

Sometimes when he numbed patients
The needle pierced their tongue
Sometimes you would hear screams
From patients that were very young
 
But overall the dentist did ok
In his cool dark sunglasses 
But people started staying away
From this blind dentist in masses
 
Maybe that is why this marriage 
Did not continue or endure 
The manicurist took one step ahead
Living pretty well on pedicures
 
The blind dentist went under
He took time off and took a trip
What's crazy is when he came back 
He became captain of a cruise ship

Somehow he steered a cruise ship
Somehow he did not fail
It really blows my mind
How good he was at braille 


Scheme XAXA BXBX XCXC DXDX XXXX XEXE EABA
Poetic Form
Metre 010010010 11101 0101111 1010111 101011 0010011 111111 10101101 0111110 010111 011111 11010101 1 110010111 011110 110101001 11110010 1 10111110 11010101 010011101 101011100 1 0110110 11110101 11011111 101101011 111011 11111 110111 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 886
Words 164
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 19, 4
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 176
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Written on January 11, 2023

Submitted by What_Ed_Said on January 11, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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