Poem Analysis:

1.
If you
analyzed
this:

Then, you
will now
analyze
this:

1. St
itches
by
Shawn
Mende
s

1. H
ow Do I
Love
Thee?
(Sonne
t 43)
by
Elizabe
th
Barrett
Browni
ng

2. S
kyscra
per by
Demi
Lovato

2. St
ill I
Rise
by
Maya
Angelo
u

3. W
ings
by
Mackle
more

3. Bl
ack
Friday
by
Kevin

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2. Paste the lyrics of your new poem below:
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, Ill rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
Cause I walk like Ive got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still Ill rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Dont you take it awful hard
Cause I laugh like Ive got gold mines
Diggin in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, Ill rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like Ive got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of historys shame
I rise
Up from a past thats rooted in pain
I rise
Im a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Questions
3. Describe the structure of the poem
(How many lines are there? How
many stanzas? What is the rhyme
scheme?)
4. Who is the intended audience?

Answers
Use complete sentences!
3. The poem have 9 stanzas and 43 lines.
The rhyme scheme for the first verse is
ABCB, DEFE, GHIH, and so on until the

5. Describe what the speaker is like.

6. What is the name of the poet?
7. What is the poems rhyme scheme?
8. Does the poet use alliteration? If so,
give an example.
9. Does the poet use consonance? If
so, give an example.
10. Does the poet use assonance? If
so, give an example.
11. Does the poem use diction with
positive or negative connotations?
Give some examples.
12. What kind of tone does the author
use? Give an example of a line
that illustrates this tone.
13. What kind of mood do you feel as
a reader? Give an example of a
line that illustrates this mood.
14. What is a theme that you noticed
in the poem? Use evidence to
support your theme.

last two stanzas which are JKLKMN and

NONOPPOOO.
4. The intended audience is for the people
who were racist to the blacks during the
negro times.
5. The speaker is determined to have
equal rights for all. She is also a black
women during the negro times.
6. The poet is Maya Angelou.
7. The rhyme scheme for the first verse is
ABCB, DEFE, GHIH, and so on until the
last two stanzas which are JKLKMN and
NONOPPOOO.
8. No, there is no alliterations in the
poem.
9. A small example of consonance are
pumping in my living room and Welling
and swelling I bear in the tide.
10. No, it doesn't have assonance.
11. This poem uses both negative and
positive connotations using diction. Two
negative examples of connotation is With
your bitter, twisted lies and You may kill
me with your hatefulness. An example of
a positive connotation is but still, like air,
Ill rise.
12. The author uses a very dedicated
tone full of dreams of hopes. An example
of this is when she states, I am the
dream and the hope of the slave, I rise, I
rise, I rise.
13. By using tone, the author give an
inspirational and hopeful mood like the
time you believed you could be and do
anything in the world. This gives out a
very dedicated mood.

14. The theme of the poem is that the

speaker have been discriminated too
much too long. The speaker will not take
it anymore and that they will rise up to
stand up for themselves against the
discrimination do matter what.