Analysis of Fatal

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



I squeeze some ink
Out of the pen
Over my itch
So it will not
Become a rash,
But does it work.
No I go to
My typewriter,
That says I need
A computer
Which will x-ray
Every poem.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIHJK
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101 1011 1111 0101 1111 1111 110 1111 0010 1111 10010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 177
Words 42
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 39

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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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