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Poemanalysis2 Brandonsiman
Poemanalysis2 Brandonsiman
1.
If you
analyzed
this:
Then, you
will now
analyze
this:
1. St
itches
by
Shawn
Mende
s
1. H
ow Do I
Love
Thee?
(Sonne
t 43)
by
Elizabe
th
Barrett
Browni
ng
2. S
kyscra
per by
Demi
Lovato
2. St
ill I
Rise
by
Maya
Angelo
u
3. W
ings
by
Mackle
more
3. Bl
ack
Friday
by
Kevin
Leake
2. Paste the lyrics of your new poem below:
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, Ill rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
Cause I walk like Ive got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still Ill rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Dont you take it awful hard
Cause I laugh like Ive got gold mines
Diggin in my own backyard.
You may write me down in history
I rise
Up from a past thats rooted in pain
I rise
Im a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Questions
3. Describe the structure of the poem
(How many lines are there? How
many stanzas? What is the rhyme
scheme?)
4. Who is the intended audience?
5. Describe what the speaker is like.
6. What is the name of the poet?
7. What is the poems rhyme scheme?
8. Does the poet use alliteration? If so,
give an example.
9. Does the poet use consonance? If
so, give an example.
10. Does the poet use assonance? If
so, give an example.
11. Does the poem use diction with
positive or negative connotations?
Give some examples.
12. What kind of tone does the author
use? Give an example of a line
Answers
Use complete sentences!
3. 37 lines and 9 stanzas
4. The audience is the person who may
have hatred against the speaker and is
likely a woman.
5. The speaker is a woman who
compares herself to the audience who is
trying to bring her down and so she
replies by stating the good things about
herself.
6. Maya Angelou
7. The rhyme scheme is a couplet and
would repeat the sound at the end of
each line. She also repeats the line of the
stanzas.
8.No
9. No
10. Yes. For example, she states that
You may shoot me with your words,
oil wells
13. The mood seemed unsettling as they
talk about themselves and how they are
better or great. For example, Does my