Analysis of To Me At My Fifth-Floor Window
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
To me at my fifth-floor window
The chimney-pots in rows
Are sets of pipes pandean
For every wind that blows;
And the smoke that whirls and eddies
In a thousand times and keys
Is really a visible music
Set to my reveries.
O monstrous pipes, melodious
With fitful tune and dream,
The clouds are your only audience,
Her thought is your only theme!
| Scheme | XAXA BBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11111110 010101 11111 1100111 00111010 0010101 110010010 111100 11010100 110101 011110100 0111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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