Analysis of The Door

Jim Hawks 1949 (UTAH)



The Door to suffering
is open

The Door to peace
is open

The Door to Love
is open

by Jim Hawks


Scheme xA xA xA x
Poetic Form
Metre 011100 110 0111 110 0111 110 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 97
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 18
Words per stanza (avg) 5

About this poem

Meditative words, simply Zen

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Written on January 28, 2000

Submitted by jim_1 on February 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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