This is an analysis of the poem Father Abraham Lincoln that begins with:

My private shrine. The Gettysburg Address
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  • Rhyme scheme: aab Xa cd efg Xhg ie eejde kel bl kddah me eb d gdmXe lhXk h alnlh e hgcc aXgoh gdbaal cobmm ia jpi mfcdb hdd bh eXade bglhb qkaha behbg Xhg lh ibXek lXmdh e ageb daghh dd peh oeehe hg qdc g keg h hlpdh ca ebd lebnl cdX ce kXafh eeXka hkXoe k
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,3,3,2,5,3,2,5,2,2,1,5,4,1,5,1,4,5,6,5,2,3,5,3,2,5,5,5,5,3,2,5,5,1,4,5,2,3,5,2,3,1,3,1,5,2,3,5,3,2,5,5,5,5,5,2,3,5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010011 1001010101 0101010101 10100011000 1011011100 0101010101 0111010100 0001001101 1111100101 0101011111 01110101000 1011000111 1001110101 11111101001 0111111101 01010011101 1001110111 1111010001 0111110100 01010101001 1101110100 1011010101 00100010101 0101010111 1001110101 1001010100 1011010001 10011100101 1110011101 11111101001 1001010101 01010110101 1101000101 0101111101 1101010101 1101010101 0101100101 01110011101 11010111010 0101110101 11001010101 1101101101 0101011100 1101111100 11010101001 1101011101 1111111111 1111110101 0101010011 1111011101 1101011101 1101011101 11010001001 11010100111 1101011101 1010110111 0100101010111 0101010101 1001010101 0101010111010 1 11001010101 11110101001 1011111111 1001010111 1101010111 1111110101 0111000101 11001110100 1001000101 1001010001 01001010101 1101011101 11010011111 1101000101 0101011101 010010101 01001010101 010100001001 1010010100 1101010101 01010110001 1111011111 1111011101 1101011010 1101010101 0101100101 01101010100 0111010111 1101111101 0101010111 1101010101 0100110011 01001110111 1111011101 1101010101 1011010111 1111010100 1101011101 1101010111 1100010101 1101011101 11001010001 1001111111 0101111011 11001010101 111111010010 1111110101 1101011101 01010100101 01010100101 11110010101 10010010101 10010010101 01111101001 0111010100 10110010001 0101010100 1101010011 11001110100 1001010101 01010110001 1101001101 0111110101 11010011111 1111110111 1101011111 1001010101 111011101 1011010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 1111010101 1111110101 0101011001 0100010111 0100010101 10010101001 0111110101 0101110101 010100100101 01010100101 1100010010100 11100010101 0101110100 11010110101 1111110100 01010100111 1100011101 01011111101 1011010101 1100100101 1100111011 1100111111 11010011101 0101010101 1001011111 1101110111 1110010001 01010010111 1101010111 1101110101 11010010101 1111011101 11010100101 1101000100 11010110101 11010101000 11010110101 1001010111 1110010100 11010101000 1101000101 0101011101 1100010101 0111010101 11001000111 1001000100 0101010100 0101000101 0001010101 0100010100100 0111010100 11010101001 1101010111 1101010100 1101010101 11010010101 0111010111 01001011111 0111001100 1001100100 0111000111 1101010111 01010100101 1010110101 11010110101 1111000111 1111011101 1111010101 11110011101 0111110101 1111011111 1111011101 1111010001 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010001 1001000111 0101010101 1010110101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 228
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and, all, of, what, mud, some, with, our, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words homely, the, of, with, we, why are repeated.

    The author used the same words whose, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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