Analysis of There's a Terror in my Home

John A. Burnett 1949 (Jersey City)



There's a terror in my home,
that I could not express.
I couldn't tell you of the things,
that you would never guess.
But would have you believed me,
or would you have some doubt.
If I were to tell you,
there's a monster in my house.
Looking back, I now regret,
never telling anyone.
I thought no one would listen,
I thought that I'd be shunned.
The horrors I experienced,
no one should ever have to bear.
That's why I'm finally speaking,
these words you need to hear.
When someone, who's supposed to love you,
becomes your worst nightmare.
You owe it to yourself and others,
to escape, get out of there.
There's no one eviler,
so loathsome or so vile.
To do what he has done to you,
to prey upon a child.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010011 111101 11011101 111101 1111011 111111 110111 1010011 1011101 101010 1111110 111111 01010100 11110111 11110010 111111 11101111 01111 111101010 1011111 1111 110111 11111111 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 705
Words 158
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 536
Words per stanza (avg) 135

About this poem

I wrote this poem after I read a heart wrenching post about a girl who was molested by her step father.

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Written on June 25, 2022

Submitted by mickyrodent42 on June 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John A. Burnett

Retired Vietnam veteran. Wanted to be a journalist but life got in the way. Now with time on my hands I want to do what I always wanted to do. Write! more…

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