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Poem Analysis:: 1. If You Analyzed This: Then, You Will Now Analyze This: 1. 1
Poem Analysis:: 1. If You Analyzed This: Then, You Will Now Analyze This: 1. 1
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 shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, Ill 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
Answers
Use complete sentences!
3. The poem contains 43 lines and 10
stanzas.
4. The intended audience is a person the
poet used to be in a relationship.
5. The speaker is like dust.
6. The name of the poet is Maya Angelou.
7. The poems rhyme scheme is that at
the end of each line, there are words that
consists of the same vowel or of similar
sound.