Analysis of A Silent Toll
Are you everything you could have been,
the moments gone,
the wafer thin
While reaching out did you lose hold
of what defines you,
a broken mold
The chase elusive, running wild
into the darkness,
a bastard child
To reach old age before your time,
a broken bell
—that cannot chime
(Villanova University: July, 2021)
Scheme | AXA BXB CXC DXD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 0101 0101 11011111 11011 0101 01010101 01010 0101 11110111 0101 1101 01001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 304 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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