Analysis of When the clouds turn grey



The dark grey hiding away the beautiful blue,
Carrying hissing, growling monsters,
Out to get five-year old me,
Heart racing in my tiny chest as my mother chases them away.

Playing race cars,
Droplets racing down the window,
Hissing monsters turned to games.

Fifteen year old me,
The beautiful grey consuming the nauseating blue,
I welcome my best friend,
My only friend.

Now she holds my tears,
As I glide the blade across my skin,
As I mourn for the loss of my mother,
As I listen to her comforting whispers on the roof of the house that holds so many memories.


Scheme AXBX XXX BACC XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 011100101001 100101010 1111111 11001101111010101 1011 10101010 1010111 01111 0100101001001 110111 1101 11111 111010111 1111011110 1110101001010110111110100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 569
Words 119
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 4
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

The sight through a childs eyes as they grow older. How they see the clouds. Transforming from hissing monsters to my best friend.

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Written on May 29, 2023

Submitted by elrieketaljaard802 on May 29, 2023

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