This is an analysis of Factory Girl by Maxwell Bodenheim.

Why are your eyes like dry brown flower-pods,
Still, gripped by the memory of lost petals?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXbaaXb
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 1111111101 11101000110 1110110 111001011 111101001 11111111 1011101 111101101011 010010010 10010111 101000101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

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