This is an analysis of The Week of Diana by Maya Angelou.
The dark lantern of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land.
We stumble into our misery on leaden feet.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X X b c X c d d c d c b a X X X d X b X c bXb
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Metre: 01100110110110101 1100011001101 11101010010011110 1000110101110 01111101011001 1010100101 010101 11100100010 1110000100101010100 10010010011001 110101101011100100 10011 11010101110100 1011100101 110101100 101101 01110110101 11110100 11011 011110101111111 11011101000 110111 0100101011 111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 24
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
our, her, and
Anaphora
and
