Analysis of Crimson Curtains Round My Mother's Bed
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Crimson curtains round my mother's bed,
Silken soft as may be;
Cool white curtains round about my bed,
For I am but a baby.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101011101 101111 111010111 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 131 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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