Analysis of The Monsters in my Mind



The darkness stretches into the loneliness of night
Tormenting demons all come out, to stand and fight
Struggles between what was and should have been
Remorse strong, stomach churning, and yet unseen

Cold tendrils like icy fingers play down the spine
Closing into the black abyss of space and time
Monsters and nightmares, both come out to play
Hands reaching blindly, for the greyness that’s day

Suffocating night fades into the harsh light of day
Monsters and darkness, for now held at bay
New fears arise of what is and what might be
Long fingered shadows, desperately break free

Chaos and mayhem close in, no hope of escape
Terror, now forming, into one shadowy shape
Finally, nothing, no sense of reality remains
Too far gone now, to pull free of the chains


Scheme AAXX XXBB BBCC DDEE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 0101001010011 10101111101 1001110111 01110100101 11110101101 100101011101 100111111 1101010111 100110101111 1001011111 11011110111 1101100011 10011011101 101100111001 100101111001 1111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 767
Words 135
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 33

About this poem

Depression and PTSD played a great part in my life this poem is a small part of the worst of those times

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Written on October 03, 2020

Submitted by Jasta on August 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Janet Stafford

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