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.'


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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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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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