Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Boy Breaking Glass that begins with:

To Marc Crawford
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXba Xa bd eaXXc fd gg Xf XXaeXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,2,5,2,2,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110 010010 1101000101 011101 1100101001 0101001110 110011100100 1100110101 1101010101 01110000010 101011 1111111 11101 011101010 100110 0100110001 111111111111101 01010000101 0100010 1110 01010010 011011110111 1001011111 1111010111 010010110100 101001010 001 01 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, the, a are repeated.

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