The Narrow Doors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE AAFA FEAE EGHGThe Wide Door into Sorrow | A |
Stands open night and day | B |
With head held high and dancing feet | C |
I pass it on my way | B |
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I never tread within it | D |
I never turn to see | E |
The Wide Door into Sorrow | A |
It cannot frighten me | E |
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The Narrow Doors to Sorrow | A |
Are secret still and low | A |
Swift tongues of dusk that spoil the sun | F |
Before I even know | A |
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My dancing feet are frozen | F |
I stare I can but see | E |
The Narrow Doors to Sorrow | A |
They stop the heart in me | E |
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Oh stranger than my midnights | E |
Of loneliness and strife | G |
The Doors that let the dark leap in | H |
Across my sunny life | G |
Fannie Stearns Davis
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