This is an analysis of the poem The View From An Attic Window that begins with:
Among the high-branching, leafless boughs
Above the roof-peaks of the town, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb XaX Xcc bXd eaa aff ccc Xfgfgaa bebeaa aeaehh didicc dadajj kdkdll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110101 01011001 111000011 111001010 01101001 1001000 11010100 100010001 010010101 11011101 11011000 10011011 01110111 1101100101 100010101 1001001101 01001101 11110101 10111101 10100101 110100101 1 110110101100 1101111101 10010011001 0111110101 1011000100 11101 100101011001 1111010111 11111100101 0101010011 1001011111 11101 1101101101 10010100101 110101011011 1101010111 01001011101 11011 1111011111 0011101101 01001100001 1110111110 01010110111 010001 1000110001 1101010101 1101111101 11010110101 1101110001 10101 1110010011 01010100101 11001010111 0111011101 0110110101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as are repeated.
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- summary of The View From An Attic Window;
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