Analysis of The Narrow Doors
Fannie Stearns Davis 1884 (Cleveland, Ohio) – 1966 (USA)
The Wide Door into Sorrow
Stands open night and day.
With head held high and dancing feet
I pass it on my way.
I never tread within it,
I never turn to see
The Wide Door into Sorrow.
It cannot frighten me.
The Narrow Doors to Sorrow
Are secret, still, and low:
Swift tongues of dusk that spoil the sun
Before I even know.
My dancing feet are frozen.
I stare. I can but see.
The Narrow Doors to Sorrow
They stop the heart in me.
Oh, stranger than my midnights
Of loneliness and strife
The Doors that let the dark leap in
Across my sunny life!
| Scheme | Abxb xcAc Aada dcAc cexe |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) |
| Metre | 0110110 110101 11110101 111111 1101011 110111 0110110 110101 0101110 110101 11111101 011101 1101110 111111 0101110 110101 110111 110001 01110110 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 530 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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