Analysis of In the Night



The world becomes a blissful shadow:
The adults are finally arriving home
The teenagers are finally allowed peace
The children are finally told bedtime stories.

But what about the fear lurking in the night?

The darkness hovering over the world when the Sun falls:
The adults are scared for the future generation of kids
The teenagers are scared of growing up and moving on
The children are scared of going to school.

But the truth always reveals itself in the night.

The planet is destroyed, and there's no way to fix it.
The adults are broken and pass their traumas onto their children.
The teenagers are suffering and collapsing under the pressure of school.
The children are no longer the hope.

In the Night.


Scheme XXXX A XXXB A XXBX A
Poetic Form
Metre 01010101 00111000101 0101100011 01011001110 11010110001 01010010011011 00111101001011 0101111010101 0101111011 10110101001 0101010111111 0011100111010110 010110000101001011 010111001 001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 716
Words 139
Sentences 9
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

I wrote this poem to talk about the truth of the world and what happens in the night. I specifically chose "In the Night" as the title because it starts as the peaceful times of the night and then switches to the dark truths that are hidden in the night.

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Written on March 02, 2023

Submitted by l.a.b.gbd.26 on March 04, 2023

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Lylah Bauman

I currently live in the rural country on the outskirts of town where I spend most of my time reading and listening to music. I love lifting weights and working to see how strong I can get. I have three pets who I love and dote on dearly. more…

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