This is an analysis of the poem Factory Windows Are Always Broken that begins with:

Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody's always throwing bricks, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXb AaXa AXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011110 11011101 110111010 1010111 1001011110 10101101 111101010 010100101 1001011110 101100101 1001011011 101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; always, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words somebody's, something are repeated.

    The author used the same word factory at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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