Analysis of The Secret



They all worry.
Slinking around behind stretched grins,
Waiting to be caught in the act.
Caught acting.
The performance of a lifetime,
Performing a life time and time again,
A merry-go-round of convincing the rest they are exactly what they seem,
no more no less.
Unless, more or less is what they think the others require,
Then they more or less become that instead.
Everyone has fun at the carnival, right?
Just look at those smiling faces examining their reflections in those funhouse mirrors.
“Doesn’t get more real than that,” they think,
Jealous of the warped reflections of the others.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLML
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 1010111 10111001 110 0010101 0100110101 0101110100111010111 1111 01111111101010 1111101101 1011101001 111110100100101001110 11111111 101010101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 599
Words 114
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 100
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Written on December 08, 2023

Submitted by jacklynvelasco1989 on December 09, 2023

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