Analysis of THE HIDDEN ROOM



there's a place in my heart only you know
where no one else will ever go
that no one else could ever find
an attic deep within my mind

you don't come here anymore
but each day I dust and sweep the floor
so you'll always have a place to be
if ever you return to me


Scheme AABB CCDD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1010111011 11111101 11111101 11010111 111101 111110101 11110111 11010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 267
Words 61
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted by BB8MITH on May 21, 2023

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