Analysis of Our Social Security Checks Together

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



Over fourteen dollars
An hour like on a check.
Nobody here hollers;
"Underpaid," what the heck.

We thank God for it all,
Every single penny,
More than cashier in Mall;
Stockers, others many.

We are sixty-seven
And we have a routine,
No more work like heaven.
Retirement that I mean.

I used to drive my car,
The only jobs I had,
I mean like kind of far;
Not anymore I'm glad.l


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 101110 1101101 1110 101101 111111 1001010 110101 11010 111010 011001 111110 0100111 111111 010111 111111 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 379
Words 90
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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Better off than a lot of people.

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Written on March 09, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on March 09, 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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