This is an analysis of Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcac aaXa daXa beae aaXa baaa cAdAeefAfAggAAA
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,15,
- Metre: 111110100 0110101 111100101 111111 11100011 1110101 01111111 1001101 111111 0010001 111101 111 01101110 111101 10101110 1011101 11100011 1110101 01111111 1001111 1111011 1111011 1111011000 111111 11100011 1011001 11111110 1010011 100101001 11 100111001 11 001101011 1011011001 1001101011 11 0001111001 11 1001111101 1101101001 11 11 11
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
like, you, me, with, your, may, and
Anaphora
you, does, i
Epiphora
rise
