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• The following version of this poem was used to create this Lesson Plan: Angelou, Maya. "Still I Rise." Poetry Foundation. Web.

• "Still I Rise" is a poem of 43 lines, written in loose trochaic tetrameter.

• The first seven stanzas are quatrains, rhymed ABCB, and the final two stanzas are six and nine lines each.

• These final two stanzas are lengthened by the insertion of a refrain, ("I rise"), between four longer lines.

• The longer lines in the final two stanzas are rhymed AABB, but when the interspersed refrain lines are considered, the rhyme scheme of the eighth stanza is ABABCC and the rhyme scheme of the ninth stanza is ABABCCBBB.

• The poem is an apostrophe to an unnamed oppressor, addressed only as "you."

• The poem opens with the speaker's recognition that the oppressor may wish to deliberately mischaracterize and stigmatize both her and...

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