Something Dark Hiding In The Innocent Poem Analysis

“Something Dark hiding in the Innocent”

Kiki Pertrosino’s “Nursey” is you would think an innocent poem, but it is far from it. When you look at the title “Nursey”, you think of nursey rhymes like Snow white, Alice in wonderland, or any other fairy tale. Very sweet, very innocent, and happy ending but this poem is the exact opposite of all those things.

Even though Pertosino poem isn’t your typical “nursey”, she did add elements in the poem that are connect to nursey rhymes. In line 1-2, Pertosino talks about where the speaker/speakers are entering a magical like fairy house and sit down to have some tea. When the word fairy is in any sentence, the reader will think a magical place. Sounds familiar? Remember Alice and wonderland where Alice fell down the rabbit hole and arrived at this magical world. Then she drank a bottle and as soon as she drank it these unreal, bizarre things started to happen around her. The same may be happening with the speakers in this poem.

Is this tea they are drinking have a type of drug in it that is making them hallucinate everything they are seeing or is this reality and the tea is a numbing kind of drug that makes them an easy target for something? This poem

There is no rhyme scheme at all, however there are nineteen lines, and six stanzas each one except the last stanza has three lines in it. The last one has four lines it. What is noticeable is the reparation of the line “Somehow we got out of there alive”. This is line that starts that eerie shift in tone, but something else readers should notice is that way every time that sentence starts it continues into the next. All the stanzas relate back to that sentence, which makes the end of poem incomplete in a way that the question is never answer why did they have to get out alive? What was the