Analysis of Jack Of All Trades

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



You did what a true father should
Though you didn't get any pay.
You would do anything you could
To get my car started that day.

I was working the graveyard shift.
The days that my car wouldn't start,
You would use your God-given gift
By using your hands, soul, and heart.

Whatever it was like outside
Hot, very cold, sleet, snow, or rain.
When I left you would always hide
What was in your eyes which was pain.

All those times you worked on my car,
Whenever I was with you dad,
Deep within they're truly by far
The best times that we ever had.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11101101 11101101 1111011 11111011 1110011 01111101 11111101 11011101 1011111 11011111 1111111 11011111 11111111 01011111 10111011 01111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 548
Words 118
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

My dad USN (United States Navy) Crew Chief Master Mechanic

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Written on March 20, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on March 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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