Analysis of A Very Special Secret Place



There is a very secret place
Where I go and wish and hide.
A very special secret place
Where imaginings reside.

And in this world of make-believe
Where fantasies abound
I live and dream and hope to see
The best of life around.

Where morals rule and angels live
The Bible's still in print.
A friendly place, a happy home
Where all that could be, is!

I like to dream of love and things
And stuff quite off-the-wall.
Where life goes on and heaven waits
For ME to make the call.

Now here inside, this empty room
Where fantasies reside
Are sterile walls, a hollow tomb,
With dreams that now have died.

A barren heart, vacant thoughts
And dreams that can't come true
Are all I have, because I had
And now I don't have you...


Scheme ABAB XCXC XXXX XDXD EBEB XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 111010101 1110101 01010101 1101 00111101 110001 11010111 011101 11010101 010101 01010101 111111 11111101 011101 11110101 111101 11011101 110001 11010101 111111 0101101 011111 11110111 0111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 702
Words 137
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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