An eighteen-year-old once sat down and wrote
a scary monster story for her friends.
Today she is a figure of some note
because her writing kindled modern trends.
She dreamed about a corpse brought back to life
by methods supernatural and coarse.
This patchwork man then hungered for a wife
and sometimes even killed without remorse.
In eighteen-eighteen, many read her book
surprised that such a young thing wrote so well.
But some believed she ought to clean and cook
since girls obsessed with books might go to Hell.
It's twenty-eighteen - things have changed a lot,
and Mary Shelley’s work is known to all.
Smart ladies fill a more respected slot,
and women writers do not need to crawl.
In days of corsets, broad-brimmed hats, and curls,
aged only eighteen, Mary shocked the world.
18 lines
180 syllables
Word Count: 134 (excluding title)
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