This is an analysis of the poem The Curtains Now Are Drawn that begins with:
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The curtains now are drawn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccdbdaBBX X bbbbXbaBBX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,10,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010111 1010101 11011 1010111 1010101 010101 11101 10111111001 10111111001 11111100100 1 111001 0010101 1010111 1010101 1111101 1110111 11101 10111111001 10111111001 11111100100 1
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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