A Dentist and a Manicurist
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
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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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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA BXBX XCXC DXDX XXXX XEXE EABA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 164 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 19, 4 |
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