Analysis of The Lockless Door
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I thought of the door
With no lock to lock.
I blew out the light,
I tip-toed the floor,
And raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
But the knock came again
My window was wide;
I climbed on the sill
And descended outside.
Back over the sill
I bade a "Come in"
To whoever the knock
At the door may have been.
So at a knock
I emptied my cage
To hide in the world
And alter with age.
Scheme | XABA XBXB XCDC DEAE AFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101 111101 011101 11111 11101 11101 0111 01101 101101 11011 11101 001011 11001 11010 101001 101111 1101 11011 11001 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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