Analysis of The Secret
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
I was frightened, for a wind
Crept along the grass to say
Something that was in my mind
Yesterday—
Something that I did not know
Could be found out by the wind,
I had buried it so low
In my mind.
| Scheme | ABAB CACA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110101 1010111 1011011 10 1011111 1111101 1110111 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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