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"TO MEASURE A MAN"

Matthew Harvey, Sr. 1967 (Chicago)

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How is it that those of "UNTRAINED THOUGHT" are placed in a position to "PROPOSITION" the future of a man of great worth?
As if he is a "PREMONITION" of the mind per the eyes of most?
Yet this "TRANSGRESSIONAL MESS" will not stop the progress of his "GREATNESS"!
For he will "PREVAIL" in this tenure or the
next!

About this poem

I wrote this poem about 17yrs ago. It resonates my every day, even though I wrote in it anger on sticky notes while sitting in my vehicle. I recite it very much at will, because it was "GOD GIVEN"!

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Written on June 15, 2006

Submitted by matthewh.13712 on January 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 313
Words 63
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Matthew Harvey, Sr.

An emphatic and charismatic writer of word and song since 1992. An original member of Poetry.com with 6 editor's awards est: 2008. more…

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