Analysis of Elbow Poetry

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



That ink comes to a boil.
Letters stuck together
In each word of the page.
I take my pen to break
Them up a conductor
Of the idea which
Is taken out quickly
Before it has a chance,
In a way to burn me.
As my pen stirs the ink,
It lays next to the page.
I come back stirring it
To make sure that it's cooked.


Scheme ABCDBEFGFHCIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 101010 011101 111111 110010 100101 110110 011101 001111 111101 111101 111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 308
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 233
Words per stanza (avg) 67

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Written on February 19, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 19, 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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