Analysis of Factory Windows Are Always Broken
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody's always throwing bricks,
Somebody's always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.
Factory windows are always broken.
Other windows are let alone.
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
Factory windows are always broken.
Something or other is going wrong.
Something is rotten--I think, in Denmark.
End of factory-window song.
| Scheme | Abxb Acxc Adxd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 100101110 101101 1011010 101011 100101110 10101101 111101010 010100101 100101110 101101101 101101101 11100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 421 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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