Analysis of Write-At-First-Thought

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



A poem approaches
Another in a book,

He's a bundle of words.
Ink rushes downward through
Their letters, her title

Smacks against his while she
Looks straight into his I's
To see if they're dotted

And all his T's are crossed
With punctuation marks
In place on the paper.

Finally, a poem
Leaves a name for himself,


Scheme XX XXX XXX XXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 010010 010001 101011 110101 110010 101111 110111 111110 011111 10101 011010 100010 101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 320
Words 68
Sentences 3
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 3, 2
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

Muse approaches Poet out of nowhere with a passionate hug and kiss at a club in Memphis, Tennessee Etcetera September 4th, 1988.

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Written on February 08, 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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