Analysis of Song
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
I came to the door of the House of Love
And knocked as the starry night went by;
And my true love cried "Who knocks?" and I said
"It is I."
And Love looked down from a lattice above
Where the roses were dry as the lips of the dead:
"There is not room in the House of Love
For you both," he said.
I plucked a leaf from the porch and crept
Away through a desert of scoffs and scorns
To a lonely place where I prayed and wept
And wove me a crown of thorns.
I came once more to the House of Love
And knocked, ah, softly and wistfully,
And my true love cried "Who knocks?" and I said
"None now but thee."
And the great doors opened wide apart
And a voice rang out from a glory of light,
"Make room, make room for a faithful heart
In the House of Love, to-night."
Scheme | abCb acac dede afCf ghgh |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110110111 011010111 0111111011 111 0111101001 101001101101 111100111 11111 110110101 0110101101 1010111101 0110111 111110111 011100100 0111111011 1111 001110101 00111101011 111110101 0011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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