This is an analysis of We Had Him by Maya Angelou.
Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing
Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cd aeX ddf cX XFeF ef ad dXfb
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,3,2,4,2,2,4,
- Metre: 10011111110 111111011101011011010101 011011110111001 11101011111100101001 001011110011110 11111111101111 0001100110 11110101010001 10001 101101101011010111010111011 11010001010101000010 010100111101011100110110111 1101010101011 111 101111110111111100 111 10001011 11011100111011011101111111111 100100010011110 111111010 0101010101010010101011000100101101011011011101010 11111111 11101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
our, and, we, he, his
Epiphora
alone
