This is an analysis of the poem As The Team's Head- Brass that begins with:

As the team's head-brass flashed out on the turn
The lovers disappeared into the wood....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdbbbdbed efXaafXbXgagdXXXXXagaacXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011111101 0101010001 11010100101 11001000111 1011000101 01010010101 01010110101 01010011101 0101010101 1001110101 11010101011 11 01010111 1101010011 010110110011 1011010101 1011110001 0011101100 1101111110011 11110110111 11111110101 0101111111 11110100101 011110111001 1011110101 1011010101 0111101101 01010010110 1111111101 1111111101 11010010110 0101110101 0111111111 0101100101 0101011011 11011011010 10010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 807
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', i, have are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of As The Team's Head- Brass;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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