Analysis of Grandma Years Ago

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



I have laid my head,
Right by the window
Lying in my bed;
Grandma years ago.

Where grandma would pray
In her rocking chair,
Every single day,
Every single prayer.

With those beads that's why
In her rocking chair,
Forty-eight years I
Remember her there.

Prayer Divine Mercy,
Grandson is praying.
Grandma I can see,
Rosary praying.


Scheme abab cDcd eDed fgfg
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111 11010 10011 10101 11011 00101 100101 100101 11111 00101 10111 01001 10110 1110 10111 10010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 332
Words 71
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 14

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48 years later I'm praying there in that place of my grandmother

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Written on February 24, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 24, 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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