Analysis of She Rode the Train to Glory
She rode the train to glory,
Her star was shining throughout the territory,
They called her the princess with red hair,
Her eyes were blue and skin so fair,
When she danced on stage the men whistled,
While all the women folk bristled.
Her given name was Nancy Smith,
A plain-Jane name given by kith,
One day, a broken mirror caught her beauty,
She changed her name to Redonna Agouti
Her hand-bills listed her as the dancing Italian
Countess who two-stepped with the battalion.
Redonna's heart and soul was with dancing,
Her famous legs wouldn't quit prancing,
She was the queen of the gaudy stage,
Wearing her purple plume in a suspended cage,
She caught the eye of a cowboy named Ranger,
And fell in love at first sight with this stranger.
He asked her to dance a waltz or two with him,
They kept dancing until the lights were dim,
Both of them were smitten with the love bug,
Before the night was over, he gave her a hug,
Ranger proposed after the first kiss,
Redonna said yes because she was in bliss.
The "Italian Countess" and cowboy were married
For forty years until they were buried,
Their tombstones lay side-by-side,
Each, with a drawing of a groom and bride,
As well as their names chiseled with pride,
"In loving memory of Ranger Smith,"
And "In loving memory of Nancy Smith Smith."
She rode the train to glory...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 01110010100 110010111 01010111 111110110 11010110 01011101 01111011 11010101010 1101111 0111001010010 1011110010 11011110 010110110 110110101 100101000101 1101101110 01011111110 11011011111 1110010101 1110101011 010111011001 100110011 111011101 00101001010 1101011010 111111 1101010101 111111011 0101001101 001010011011 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,294 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on January 15, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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