Analysis of Overhead the Tree-Tops Meet
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Overhead the tree-tops meet,
Flowers and grass spring 'neath one's feet;
There was nought above me, and nought below,
My childhood had not learned to know:
For what are the voices of birds
—Ay, and of beasts,—but words—our words,
Only so much more sweet?
The knowledge of that with my life begun!
But I had so near made out the sun,
And counted your stars, the Seven and One,
Like the fingers of my hand:
Nay, I could all but understand
Wherefore through heaven the white moon ranges,
And just when out of her soft fifty changes
No unfamiliar face might overlook me—
Suddenly God took me!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 10011111 1110110101 1111111 11101011 101111101 101111 0101111101 111111101 0101101001 1010111 1111101 111001110 01111011010 101011101 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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