Analysis of Everyone Has Secrets
Everyone Has Secrets
Secrets are pandemic whether they're held or told:
covert, furtive, stealthy, elusive, sly and bold.
There are sinful secrets that paralyze with shame.
Struthiously hiding can't self-respect reclaim.
There are family secrets of embarrassing deeds.
Surreptitious closure conceals their greater needs.
There are secret guidelines that guarantee success:
cryptographic styling leading to happiness.
There are secret places for private rendezvous:
clandestine hideaways with no traceable clue.
There are secret visions, instilled by reverie,
of romantic conquests or destroyed enemy.
There are hidden secrets too personal to share:
dirty, dark and heavy, overwhelming to bear.
There are open secrets already known to all:
each attempt to cover is far beyond recall.
Everyone has secrets. Some offer lots of fun.
Many are quite toxic which only shock or stun.
Scheme | X A A B B C C X X D D E E F F G G H H |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 101010101111 101010010101 11101011011 110110101 1110010101001 01010011101 1110110101 110101100 11101011010 0101111001 111010011100 10101101100 111010110011 10101001011 111010010111 10111011011 10110110111 101110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 875 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on November 08, 2012
Modified on April 27, 2023
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