Analysis of Monsters at night
The sun goes down, I know what that means. No lullabies sung and no sweet dreams.
The music is loud, the voices they chatter. I'm just a small child but that doesn't matter.
Hidden under my sheets, I close my eyes tight. I pray that the monsters don't hurt me tonight.
Then the door makes a creak, he enters my room. I lay frozen in fear, upon my makeshift tomb.
I know the routine, I brace for the pain. The feeling of shame bounces round in my brain.
It feels like forever but as soon as he's done, he whispers so gently, "I had so much fun".
He tells me to remember, that I can't say a word. No one would believe me, my voice left unheard.
So I kept our little secret, too tired for the fight, to prove my youth was stolen, by the monsters at night.
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Metre | 01111111111010111 0101101011011011111010 1010111111111101011101 1011011101111100101111 110011110101011101011 11101011111111011011111 111101011110111101111101 1111010101101011111110101011 |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 71 |
Words per line (avg) | 19 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 570 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 149 |
About this poem
Trigger warning - SA/CA! One of the hardest poems to write. Reliving my youth was hard but it's helping me heal.
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Written on March 20, 2022
Submitted by Rubyrae on March 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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