Analysis of Tree at my Window
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.
Vague dream head lifted out of the ground,
And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
Not all your light tongues talking aloud
Could be profound.
But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
And if you have seen me when I slept,
You have seen me when I was taken and swept
And all but lost.
That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.
Scheme | AXXA BCCB DEED FFFF |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11110101 111101111 111101101 01101 111101101 01110111 111111001 1101 1111111001 011111111 11111111001 0111 1111101010 1100010010 111101110 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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