Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928 she died may 28, 2014. She was born St. Louis, MO. She was an very amazing poet therefore she was an award-winning author known for her acclaimed memoir. This poem contains 8 stanzas also in each stanza has 6 or 7 lines in each stanza and most of the stanzas has the word “all” in them. This poem also has rhyme in stanza 1 lines 1 and 2 has an rhyme “wall” and “hall”. Also in stanza 3 the words that rhyme are boo,shoo,fun,run,cry, and fly.
There is the repetition of the sound of a vowel such as in stanza 2 in lines 1 and 2 the sound “oose”. Maya Angelou uses assonance she constantly uses the word “all” in stanza one. And she uses alliteration in stanza 3 when she said “boo and shoo” and “fun and run”.