This is an analysis of Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou.
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaA bbA ccA dXa eeffggab A hhA iia jjkkA cdak dXjX AAAXA
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,8,1,3,3,5,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11101 10101 11010111 11101 11001 11010111 11101 10101 1110111 10101 11100 11010111 111 101 111 111 111 111 111 111 11010111 111 10111 11010111 10001 10001 11110111 11111 11111 10101 01101 1110111 111111 110111 000111 010011 110101 111111 1110101 110101 11010111 111 111 11010111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
at, all
Anaphora
not
Epiphora
all
