This is an analysis of the poem The Big Top that begins with:
The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering
to my heart... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcedadafgfgbhiahcaXjkejkXXlg lcimimindnd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111010 011 1110100101110011 11111001010010011 10101001111111 01 111111111110 111 11010101010101 01010101010001 1010101010010101 11010101010101 11110101110101 0010011101111000 101000111011101 1111001010010 101 101011101111101 01 1010111010100001 1010011011101001 1 1010101011010 101 11111111110111 111010010110101 01 111010101110101 11111001011 101000 11101001001010101 11101110100100101 1100101011011101 11001011101 1101 100101011110101 110111111100101 111101110010101 111100011101 01 110101101110101 1101001011100101 11000101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2082
- Average number of words per stanza: 408
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, who, one, they, can are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, who are repeated.
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- summary of The Big Top;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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