1. Structure: It is a little confusing at first if you are simply looking for the rhyme scheme, but the structure is AABAAB (with the two A's being separate sets of rhymes)
2. Theme: The theme of the poem is Calvin not being able to sleep because there are monsters under his bed. All night he hears them moan and growl hungry for child! But in the end his good ol' buddy Hobbes scares away the monsters and he can sleep.
3. Grammer/Meaning: Bill Waterson enjoys finding clever intricate ways to rhyme words. Often times he will displace the sound of a word to correspond with another.
4. Images: Waterson paints very lengthy, descriptive, nasty images of the monsters sounds and movement. This helps set the tone and create an atmosphere that any young child would be scared in. He does it in a way that is humorous and entertaining to read
5. Important Words: All of them
6. Theme: The fears every child goes through when their imagination runs wild.
7. Important Images: The images of the monsters and his fear of them are basically the ENTIRE basis of the poem. Like I said before, his lengthy, well thought out images of these monsters highlight the thoughts and wildly detailed fantasies children can create for themselves.
8: Literary devices: ......
9. Flow: With any poem you have no choice but to read it with a certain rhythm and pace. Only more so with this one. It's structure allows for the rhymes to easily be noticed and for the texture of the piece to be consistent.
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