Analysis of Toll Free



The breastfed future
  stripped motherlode

The past untethered
  —back on the road

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XA AA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 0110 11 011 1101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 117
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 06, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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