Analysis of Lincoln
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all,
That which is gendered in the wilderness
From lonely prairies and God's tenderness.
Imperial soul, star of a weedy stream,
Born where the ghosts of buffaloes still dream,
Whose spirit hoof-beats storm above his grave,
Above that breast of earth and prairie-fire —
Fire that freed the slave.
| Scheme | ABBCCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010011 111100100 1101001100 01001110101 11011111 1101110111 01111101010 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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