This is an analysis of the poem Red River Valley that begins with:
To the Red River Valley we are going,
For to get us some trains and some trucks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX adad Xefe aece aege afhf gaha hfhf hfgf hgbg hgcg cfgf aXhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110101110 101111111 1011111010 11011001 1111111010 111001101 0011010110 10101011 111011010 111011110 11110101 1011000111 1111111110 111111101 10110110010 001001111 0010111110 11011011 1011111010 101111111 0010111110 11101010111 1011100010 101011001 11101111010 011011101 11100011010 101111011 1010110010 101101111 1111110010 11101011 111010010 101011111 1010101010 101111111 10101010010 001011101 10101101011 1011111 1110010010 1101011101 1010101010 111011101 11110101010 0011010101 1110110011 110101011 1111111010 101111001 11100011010 1111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there's, he, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word s is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words lead, one at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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