Poem Analysis:

1.
If you analyzed this:

Then, you will now analyze this:

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Mendes

1. How Do I Love Thee?

(Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning

2. Skyscraper by Demi
Lovato

2. Still I Rise by Maya

Angelou

3. Wings by Macklemore

3. Black Friday by Kevin

Leake

2. Paste the lyrics of your new poem below:

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

Answers
Use complete sentences!

3. There are 24 lines and 6 stanzas,

rhyme schemes A-E
4. It sounds like he is speaking to an
enforcer of the law
5. He sounds Shocked and in fright of the
horrors of the black friday night.
6. Kevin Leake
7. He doesnt have a specific rhyme
scheme, he jumps from word to word
8. The poet uses no form of alliteration in
his writing
9. Yes, for example, fists flying people
crying
10. Yes, for example, dozens of brawls
and 999 calls (say it 10 times fast!)
11. He does use diction with negative
connotation, for example, shocking
behavior and violence broke out
12. He uses the speaker to help him
explain his fear and shameful thoughts
towards black friday
13. I feel shocked, because I have

in the poem? Use evidence to

support your theme.

experienced black friday before, and I

was shocked to hear how he thought of
the event
14. The theme I saw in the poem is the
effects of black friday, an example is, On
this crazy day black Friday
What a disgrace as the hunters race
Christmas bargains with a punch in the
face