This is an analysis of On Aging by Maya Angelou.
When you see me sitting quietly,
Like a sack left on the shelf,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXaddceXeccafffXf
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 111110100 1011101 11111100 1100011 111101 111100 10100110 10111010 11111110 1111101 10101110 1111101 111110100 1101101 1101110 11001111 101101111 0101101011 01111111 1111011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
t, less, i
Anaphora
hold, a
Epiphora
it
