Analysis of Lincoln
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound,
And all her ways were filled with clam'rous sound.
Wailed loud the South with unremitting grief,
And wept the North that could not find relief.
Then madness joined its harshest tone to strife:
A minor note swelled in the song of life.
'Till, stirring with the love that filled his breast,
But still, unflinching at the right's behest,
Grave Lincoln came, strong handed, from afar,
The mighty Homer of the lyre of war.
'T was he who bade the raging tempest cease,
Wrenched from his harp the harmony of peace,
Muted the strings, that made the discord,--Wrong,
And gave his spirit up in thund'rous song.
Oh mighty Master of the mighty lyre,
Earth heard and trembled at thy strains of fire:
Earth learned of thee what Heav'n already knew,
And wrote thee down among her treasured few.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 010101111 110110101 0101111101 1101110111 0101100111 1101011111 1101010101 1101110101 0101010111 11111010101 1111010011 1001110101 011101011 1101010101 11010111110 1111110101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 644 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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