Analysis of My Flesh Becomes Word

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



Paper is my skin
And the ink is blood
Flowing deep within
As ideas flood.


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10111 00111 10101 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 15

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And the word became flesh and dwells among us (Jesus)

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Written on February 20, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 20, 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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