This is an analysis of the poem The Red River Voyageur that begins with:

Out and in the river is winding
The links of its long, red chain,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb XddX cefe ghah ijcj diaX bbgb fege Xhah Xifi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010010 0100111 1101011 110101 1011011 0010111 01001010 0011000 1001011 0010111 0111110 1100111 10111010 110101 010011110 111011 0001011 0001001 110010011 0100111 010011110 0011101 11101010 00101100 01001010 1101101 00101010 0010101 101011010 010111 11011110 111101 11010011 1011111 11111010 1111101 1001110 0100001 001001010 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, is, the, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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