Analysis of Haunted

Candice Lynn Sapp 1982 (Morgantown West Virginia)



I am haunted by the memory of a girl.
Who I never really knew.
Her innocence lost and childhood
Taken away too soon.

I am haunted by the memory of a girl.
Who was never allowed to be.
She speaks to me in dreams of
Who she should have been.

I am haunted by the memory of a girl.
Who has nightmares that keep her awake.
She is searching for a way.
To finally set her soul free from pain.

I hope that someday when this girl is gone
Someone, somewhere, picks this girls soul
Up off these pages and thinks,
" I would have loved her ".

I want to say thank you to the rare few individuals in my life who have listened without judgement, spoken with kind words and loved me for who I am, Who helped me and understood me and loved me without conditions...


Scheme Axxx Axxx Axxx xxxx x
Poetic Form
Metre 111010100101 1110101 0100101 100111 111010100101 11100111 1111011 11111 111010100101 11111001 1110101 1100101111 111111111 111111 1111001 11110 1111111011010001111100110101110111111111001101101010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 750
Words 165
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

This is a personal poem. It was hard to write while my tears fell down my cheeks. This happened to me at 3 years old. I was raped and left for dead. All I could see was red everywhere. I almost bleed to death. I needed to share what I went through.

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Written on May 10, 2022

Submitted by candielynn82 on May 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Candice Lynn Sapp

I am a mother to a beautiful girl with Autism who I love with all my heart. I am a writer and I love to read and write poetry. more…

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