Analysis of Toll of time



The fire in me,
turned to ash;
The beast in me,
was in chains.

The love you gave,
was enough for me;
The hugs you gave
was full of you

The time you 'went'
The mug stood still;
I know we are one
even in the dusk.


Scheme AXAX BABX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01001 111 0101 101 0111 10111 0111 1111 0111 0111 11111 10001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 213
Words 56
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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