Analysis of What A Relief

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



We don't at all talk,
Eighty-five years old,
All I do is walk;
To door in the cold.

Age sixty-seven,
I will be this year,
Doing what Heaven
Wants prayers in God's ear.

Newspaper I get
From road to her door,
So she won't get wet,
There is nothing more.

I can do for her,
That's better than that.
She loves it for sure,
Mornings where it's at.


Scheme ABAB CXCX DEDE XFXF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11111 10111 11111 11001 11010 11111 10110 11011 1011 11101 11111 11101 11110 11011 11111 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 344
Words 84
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) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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Getting newspaper for old lady every morning

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Written on February 22, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 22, 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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