This is an analysis of I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou.
A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcX ddEB ffXa cXcXg caEB Xgcfa
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,4,5,4,5,
- Metre: 0111101 0011111 101011101 001011 110101 1011110101 110110101 011110111 11100101 011100101 01011111 10101101011 0111010 011100101 101111 0101 1011101011 11110101 1011110101 011110111 011110111 11100101 01110 01010101 111110 10110101 10111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
his, on
Anaphora
the, his
