The Open Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGH IIJKKJ LLMNNO PPKQQK RRSOOS| O Mystery of life | A |
| That after all our strife | A |
| Defeats mistakes | B |
| Just as at last we see | C |
| The road to victory | C |
| The tired heart breaks | B |
| - | |
| Just as the long years give | D |
| Knowledge of how to live | E |
| Life's end draws near | F |
| As if that gift being ours | G |
| God needed our new powers | G |
| In worlds elsewhere | H |
| - | |
| There if the soul whose wings | I |
| Were won in suffering springs | I |
| To life anew | J |
| Justice would have some room | K |
| For hope beyond the tomb | K |
| And mercy too | J |
| - | |
| And since without this dream | L |
| No light no faintest gleam | L |
| Answers our 'why' | M |
| But earth and all its race | N |
| Must pass and leave no trace | N |
| On that blind sky | O |
| - | |
| Shall reason close that door | P |
| On all we struggled for | P |
| Seal the soul's doom | K |
| Make of this universe | Q |
| One wild answering curse | Q |
| One lampless tomb | K |
| - | |
| Mine be the dream the creed | R |
| That leaves for God indeed | R |
| For God and man | S |
| One open door whereby | O |
| To prove His world no lie | O |
| And crown His plan | S |
Alfred Noyes
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