Analysis of The Curtains Now Are Drawn
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
The curtains now are drawn,
And the spindrift strikes the glass,
Blown up the jagged pass
By the surly salt sou'-west,
And the sneering glare is gone
Behind the yonder crest,
While she sings to me:
'O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine.'
I stand here in the rain,
With its smite upon her stone,
And the grasses that have grown
Over women, children, men,
And their texts that 'Life is vain';
But I hear the notes as when
Once she sang to me:
'O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine.'
Scheme | abbcacdEEE fgghfhdEEE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 010111 001101 11011 1010111 0010111 010101 11111 10111111111 00111111111 0111110101 111001 1110101 0010111 1010101 0111111 1110111 11111 10111111111 00111111111 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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