Analysis of My Calling

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



They shove Work in my face
And always cut me down.
When they get on my case,
I simply drive to town.

They give me a weird look,
But they don't understand.
A pen and a notebook,
I carry in my hand.

So if they start to curse,
I will just go and find
Where I can write a verse,
When it comes to my mind.

It's something I must do
Which is hard to explain.
All those mean words from you,
For years I stood the pain.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 111011 01111 111111 110111 111011 11101 01001 110011 111111 111101 111101 111111 110111 111101 111111 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 413
Words 103
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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Dedicate myself to writing poetry nothing in the way of it

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Written on March 03, 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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