Analysis of Marie

Dr. T. Pinnock 1962 (Hartford, Ct)



Love of air,
come Marie through the sky.
She lifted her arms right through the star.
Like a god she disappears,
goes to the blaming wind to gods’ love.

By: Theodore Arthur Pinnock
“Summer of 74”
11 years old


Scheme XXXXA XAX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 101101 110011101 101101 110101111 1101010 101 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 208
Words 39
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 3
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dr. T. Pinnock

Dr. Pinnock first wrote poetry in the institution he resided in inside a classroom at 8 years old. The typewriter was old and manual with a keyguard. A keyguard is a device with an opening for each key to prevent a person lacking fine motor skills from accidentally hitting a key. Dr. Pinnock was granted permission to use the class alone. He labored there typing for hours ignoring his cerebral palsy. Dr. Pinnock grew up with his family until August of 1970. Poverty forced his parents to make him a ward of the State of Connecticut. more…

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