Analysis of Through The Doorway I Was Shown
Locked inside my indecision,
death opened up the door
And let me look inside my fear,
which I hated and abhorred
The view not half as frightening,
as the stories others lied
And its arms extended toward me,
standing frozen—heart denied
My steps then hesitated,
and its threshold wasn’t breached
As I watched the door shut slowly,
todays verdict now impeached
But a key was thrown out to me,
unlocking things I’ve yet to know
Of a still uncertain future,
through the doorway I was shown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
... inspired by John Donne
Scheme | AX XX XB CB XD CD CX XX X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110010 110101 01110111 1110001 01111100 1010101 011010011 1010101 111100 01111 11101110 0110101 10111111 01011111 10101010 101111 0100101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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