Analysis of The Toll
I lived inside my timeframe,
did you live inside of yours
I lived outside my timeframe,
did you live outside of yours
“I carried things from now till then,
a toll I humbly paid
Across a bridge where time had stopped,
—the truth to pass each way”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
| Scheme | AB AB XX XC C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 1110111 111111 1111111 11011111 011101 01011111 011111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 286 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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