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Passing Time by Maya Angelou: poem analysis

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This is an analysis of Passing Time by Maya Angelou.

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX aX Xa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,
  • Metre: 1111 111 110010 00101 0100100 1010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 6

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