Analysis of "Women work"
Maya Angelou 1928 (St. Louis) – 2014 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The cane to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.
Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.
Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.
Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.
Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG XXEH XXCH XIXI CJXJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101011 0111 0111 0111 101011 01011 1110011 01011 11111 0111 01111 1101111 110101 001011 1111 1111 1101 011101 11111 11101 1110101 111101 1101 10111 110100 11101 11101 1010101 1111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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BY Maya Angelou
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Submitted on February 07, 2022
Modified on May 02, 2023
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