This is an analysis of the poem Overhead The Tree-Tops Meet that begins with:

Overhead the tree-tops meet,
Flowers and grass spring 'neath one's feet;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccadddeeccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 101101111 1110111101 11111101 11101001 11011111 101111 0100101110 111111101 1101101011 1010011 11111101 10011001110 11110011010 11010111011 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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