To The Dr. (Collegiate)

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



With your hand,
You stick this
Pen into
A letter
To get ink,
To come out
To fill that
Poem up,
For the page.

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Written on March 08, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on March 08, 2024

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Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 108
Words 27
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

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