Structural Analysis of a Phillis Wheatley Poem

Structural Analysis of a Phillis Wheatley Poem

A letter from Phillis Wheatley

       The poem, ‘A letter from Phillis Wheatley’ as written by Robert Hayden has a total of 54 lines. However, the poem is not divided into any number of stanzas that would make it easy for one to see the poetic aspects that have been used. Nonetheless, the poem does not follow a particular format especially in rhyme schemes of the last sounds of each sentence from the beginning to the end. For example, the first five lines end with the following words, Obour, without, times, destined and yet. These words end with different sounds therefore making one to conclude that no particular…