Analysis of Toll Mine To Pay
My road deeply potholed,
with those left behind
Resurfaced with pain,
all casualties mine
A road often fatal,
to family and friends
No roses to line it,
as it twisted and bent
When forced to look back,
I see nothing but blood
From my hands to the cradle,
on those that I’ve loved
If you ask me my reason
for acting this way
With eyes straight ahead,
I’d have nothing to say
With the road getting shorter,
compressed in the light
Behind me those bodies,
that questioned my flight
The deeper I travel,
newer endings begin
This toll mine to pay
—heading further within
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX AX XX XX AX X B XB XC XC AD BD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) |
| Metre | 11101 11101 01011 110001 011010 110001 110111 111001 11111 111011 1111010 11111 1111110 11011 11101 111011 1011010 01001 011110 11011 010110 101001 11111 101001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 607 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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