Analysis of Down One Ballpoint
Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)
The final game is the poem.
The pen bounces on the paper
As the ink perspires at the point
Sweating out every thought to guard
Against all of the offensive
Words with a few lines left to go
And the thought is ticking away
With the complete concentration
Of that one Poets idea .
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 01011010 01101010 1011101 101100111 01110010 11011111 00111001 1001010 11110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Basketball NBA Championship
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