Sonnet About a Winter Night

Peaceful Winter Night

It's a cold rainy night

The sky is as black as coal,

The moon is shining bright

And the wind is out of control,

But outside does not matter

Because I'm snug as a bug in a rug,

My thoughts have all gone splatter

I feel like I'm on a sleeping drug, 

Dreams drift through my mind

Each weirder than the one before,

But every one is somehow entwined

They all involve the ocean floor,

It is such a heavenly night

I'm dreading the time for the morning light.

By Tia Davison

Analyzation

This poem is about the serenity of winter nights when the weather is terrible but you are all warm wrapped up in bed. It is a sonnet that consists of 14 lines, in iambic pentameter. The rhyme pattern is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Similes are used on line two "as black as coal" and on line six "as snug as a bug". An allusion is used on line 13 with the mention of heaven. Alliteration is used on line nine with "Dream drift". Rhyme is used at the end of every line but also in line six with snug, bug and rug. Imagery is used in the first stanza, the setting is described vividly to represent a winter night. Personification is used because thoughts cannot physically splatter.