Analysis of Thought Hard

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



That idea tossed
And turned last night in
My sleep how I know
When I was making
My poem the sheet
Was kind of wrinkled.


Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 01110 11111 11110 11001 11110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 119
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 25

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Written on February 20, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 20, 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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