Analysis of Dish
Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)
As I fill my page,
For ink to lather,
There must be pressure
Coming from the pen.
| Scheme | ABBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11110 11110 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 81 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Washing dishes.
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