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

Leake
2. Paste the lyrics of your new poem below:

Black Friday
Fists flying people crying
On this crazy day black Friday
What a disgrace as the hunters race
Christmas bargains with a punch in the face
Dozens of brawls and 999 calls
From stores all around the country
These midnight sales just turned into hell
Behaving like wild animals that were hungry
Shopping madness hit the towns
Customers fighting like savaged clowns
Ripped stuff down from the shelves stacked high
And within minutes the TVs and gadgets went dry

Reports came in from everywhere

This place is a battlefield they dont care
Shocking behaviour and violence broke out
Some were screaming whilst others would shout
It was deadly like a war picture scene
People grabbing and pushing for just anything
They were having a tug of war over electrical goods
Rivals punching black and blue to snatch for their hoods
Supermarkets were forced to close their doors

When the crowds rushed in they forgot civil laws

It was a shameful site and the customers werent polite
Those black Friday shoppers they did fuss and they did fight

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?
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.

Answers
Use complete sentences!
3. There are 24 lines in this song, and six
stanzas.
4. The intended audience is the people
the speaker is telling about Black Friday,
or the person that is listening to the
speaker.
5. The speaker is disgusted, and
ashamed about how people fight over
sales. Also materials on Black Friday. The
speaker is ashamed on how some people
fight each other, and how brutal they fight
on Black Friday.
6. The name of the poet is Kevin Leake.
7. The poem has rhyme scheme which is
that in the end of each line, the last word
is usually rhymes with the next last word
in the sentence.
8. No, I dont believe there is an example
of alliteration.
9. No, I didnt find an example of
consonance.
10. An example of assonance is On this
crazy day black Friday.
11. This poem gives more negative
connotations. For exampleIt was a
shameful site and the customers werent
polite.Shameful means literally
disgracing, and the connotation tells how
in the stores, the people acted wrong
during Black Friday.
12. I believe the author has a disgusted
tone because the speaker is describing
how the people fight each other in Black
Friday.
13. I feel disgusted, and not so surpised
on how some people act during Black

Friday.
14. The theme I noticed was that
sometimes Black Friday is violent, and
people fight over things that are only
materials.