Analysis of Poet About Paperless

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



I'm living on the line,
Because I am line smart
I've survived by holding,
Pens traversing each line,
Pushing every notebook,
Feeding off of each word;
Bard about paperless.


Scheme ABCADEF
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 011111 101110 101011 101001 101111 101100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 173
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 29

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Homeless on the street

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Written on February 12, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 12, 2024

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Robert Joseph Mattingly

A Poet for forty years since 1983, a Substitute Teacher, B.S.Ed.. I built a building of poems beyond imagination, 64 inches tall. more…

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