Analysis of Broken Windows



How can the old house still stand
when everyone has gone
Doesn’t it know
Hasn’t it heard
Can’t someone please explain
that its past is no longer prologue
It’s now…not then… again

No more laughter in the stairwell
no cars honking in the lane
the furnace rusts
in the basement
kids have long since moved away
so there’s no one else to remember
the tears…the joys…the days

Just an old house in the field
with broken windows
busted doors on rusty hinges
no one would have predicted
this gloomy vignette
Who will know
once I forget


Scheme XXAXBXX XBXXXXX XXXXCAC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 11011 111 111 11101 111111010 111101 1110001 1110001 0101 0010 1111101 111111010 010101 1111001 11010 10111010 1111010 11001 111 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 525
Words 96
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 32

About this poem

this abandoned farmhouse was my childhood home

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Written on 1997

Submitted by Snodeel on June 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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