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
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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Wallace LaBenne

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