What Is The Mood Of The Poem Beyond The Locked Door

Upon scansion of “Beyond the Locked Door,” one notices the presence of four stanzas, with the first three being quatrains and the last stanza being a couplet. It is written in iambic pentameter. As the poem is fourteen lines long and has such a metrical scheme, one can assume that the poem is a sonnet. The rhyme scheme is ABABCDCDEFEFGG, which suggests that the sonnet is English. As for punctuation, the second line in each of the first three stanzas end with an exclamation mark and are in quotation marks. Similarly, the fourth line of each of the quatrains has quotation marks and ends with some sort of end-line punctuation. A period is at the end of the couplet, indicating that the couplet can likely stand on its own. However, content is supreme
This further indicates that the poem is an English sonnet, as the quatrains all discuss a similar subject. However, there are two important differences between each of the stanzas. First off, in each stanza the voice tells the speaker to come out for a different reason - there’s a different season outside. This indicates the passage of time throughout the poem. The other crucial difference is what the voice is “far beyond” (Line 1). In the first stanza, the voice is “far beyond the door” (Line 1), “the cage” (Line 5) in the second stanza, and “the locks” (Line 9) in the third stanza. A cage is more secure than a - presumably room - door, and locks are used to keep people from opening a door in the first place. The mention of locks is especially significant when tied in with the mention of the locked door in the title. As the poem progresses, so the does the strength of the barrier between the voice and speaker. In conjunction with the progression of time, it seems that as time goes on the speaker becomes more distant from the voice, and therefore from her loved