Song analysis – English

this is my song analysis i chose…

A-Team, A-Team
Please don’t try to play us
A-Team, aw, A-Team
Please don’t try to play us
A-Team, aw, A-Team
Call my B up, call Sherita
Let’s link up, ain’t no days off
‘Less I’m paid off, these boys play soft
We just play ball
A-Team, won’t you sign up
Join my roster, you a scholar
A-Team, know you ready
My right hand steady, coach you if you let me
A-Team, got that A1
A1 steak sauce, aw can’t take loss
A-Team, join my FIFA
Roll my weed up, keep my D up
Aw, A-Team
When I back off the curb
In back of the back the Batmobile heard
I’m back on alert
I’m back what’s the word
I’m back what’s the word
I’m back in the third
They back on my mind, they back on my nerves
Can’t take back the time so I’m back, back, back spending
I’m back on the splurge, I’m back on the splurge
They jump when I jump out then jump in and swerve swerve (Yeah, yeah)
It’s halftime gon’ show that
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I’m a dog you know that
Can’t be from New Jersey how you throw back
A-Team, A-Team
Please don’t try to play us
A-Team, aw, A-Team
Please don’t try to play us
A-Team, aw, A-Team

Imagery:

Describing words:
-alert
-splurge
-swerve

Alliteration:
-yeah
-I’m back
-swerve
-a team

Simile:
-please don’t try to play us
-A1
-I’m a dog

Metaphor:
-I’m a dog

Vivid language:
-splurge
-swerve
-dog
-boys
Word choice:
-swerve, he chose this word because it is more descriptive and in depth than to move directions over and over.
-splurge, he used this word because it is more descriptive
-dog, he used this word because he is trying to say that he is tough and grew up in a rough neighborhood
-boys, he said boys because boys is kind of a gangster way of saying friends
TONE, ATTITUDE

Which words are chosen to create a mood/feeling?:
-swerve
-dog
-boys
-word
-gon’
-Throw back
These words are chosen because they add another level of affect to the song in the way that this is a rap song and these are kind of gangster words

Does the tone change in the poem?:
-yes

The poem is happy and celebratory

Alarm, he is being aware of his surroundings and being careful
The literal meaning is a loud noise meaning something is wrong or you are in trouble

Because it adds more effect to the song, makes it more descriptive and it gives it more of a gangster feeling.

STYLE:
-free verse because it doesn’t have any of the characteristics of the other types of poems
-there are 3 quatrain not including the repeated parts
-there are lots of rhymes in the song there are also rhyme schemes
-A-team the – isn’t necessary

INTERPRETATION:
-The artist is talking about the “A-team” which I am guessing is a very good team or the #1 team for some sort of sport team because it talks about FIFA and roster, FIFA is soccer but it also talks about basketball so it is probably one of the two. He is also expressing the rap culture with rhymes, words and phrases. Other than that he isn’t really sending any other messages.
-I don’t think it was written for a certain person in my opinion but In the song he talks about him wanting someone to join his roster.
-this song wasn’t written about a historical or important event but some of his other songs are.
– the narrator is Travi$ Scott
– to me the song means to always try for the best teams, colleges and jobs in sports or anything else in life and to not give up and train, study and just to not start things and don’t finish them, also to always try to be the best at what you do. The reason the song means this to me is from when he talks about the “A-team” which I can predict is the best team and he talks about not taking days off it kind of means to me to not give up and to practice, also when he says cant take loss it means to me that you should always try to be the beat at what you do. I can relate to this because since I am on the basketball team I am always trying my best, trying to improve, practice, to prove myself to the other players and trying to be the best on the team.

 

analysis:

Some of the describing words and vivid language in this song are alert, splurge dog, dog. I think he chose swerve because it is more descriptive and in depth than to move directions over and over. I think he chose splurge because it is more descriptive, dog because he is trying to say he is tough, he grew up in a rough neighborhood and it is expressing his rap culture. Also boys I think he used this term instead of any other words because boys is kind of a gangster way of saying friends. Finally think he chose alert in the way he did because it fit the best out of all the options. Some alliteration are, yeah, I’m back, swerve and A-team also some similes are, please don’t try to play us, A1 and I’m a dog. I could only find one metaphor and it was I’m a dog.
This song does have lots of feeling and mood so here are some of the words that make this song like that, swerve, dog, boys, word, gon’ and throw back these words express feeling and mood because they add another level of effect in the way that this is a rap song and these are kind of gangster words and that is what rap is based on. The tone changes the poem and it is a happy and celebratory poem I think this because it isn’t sad lyrics they aren’t the most happy lyrics but they defiantly aren’t sad. One of the connotations is alarm, he uses it as being aware of his surroundings and being careful. The literal meaning is an anxious awareness of danger. The reason the artist uses this tone and feeling is because it adds more effect to the song, makes it more descriptive and it gives it more of a gangster feeling.
A-team is a free verse because it doesn’t have any of the characteristics of the other types of poems and is just free. There are 3 quatrain not including the repeated parts. There are also lots of rhymes in the song and rhyme schemes some of the rhymes are, “know you ready my right hand steady, coach you if you let me”, also “ain’t no days off’ Less I’m paid off, these boys play soft”,” I’m a dog you know that Can’t be from New Jersey how you throw back” and those are just some of the many rhymes in the song. There is also one odd use of punctuation in the song and that is the – in the A-team it is still fine but it isn’t necessary.
The artist is talking about the “A-team” which I am guessing is a very good team or the #1 team for some sort of sport team because it talks about FIFA and roster, FIFA is soccer but it also talks about basketball so it is probably one of the two. He is also expressing the rap culture with rhymes, words and phrases. Other than that he isn’t really sending any other messages. I don’t think it was written for a certain person in my opinion but In the song he talks about him wanting someone to join his roster. This song wasn’t written about a historical or important event but some of his other songs are. The narrator is Travi$ Scott. To me the song means to always try for the best teams, colleges and jobs in sports or anything else in life and to not give up and train, study and just to not start things and don’t finish them, also to always try to be the best at what you do. The reason the song means this to me is from when he talks about the “A-team” which I can predict is the best team and he talks about not taking days off it kind of means to me to not give up and to practice, also when he says cant take loss it means to me that you should always try to be the beat at what you do. I can relate to this because since I am on the basketball team I am always trying my best, trying to improve, practice, to prove myself to the other players and trying to be the best on the team.