This is an analysis of the poem We Talked Of Lincoln that begins with:
WE talked of Abraham Lincoln in the night,
Ten fur-coat men on North Saskatchewan’s plain—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb ccdbb eecXd e Afaf cceXX geeeg gchfX f Abhh iijjk kbbba a Affa allddXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,1,4,5,5,5,1,4,5,5,1,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010110001 11111110001 1101110101 10010101001 11010100111 0111010101 1001011101 1101010111 0101010101 1011110111 0111011101 1101111101 101010101 11001010101 1111101111 0111110011 11010110001 011100100101 1111110111 1010010101 01001010101 100010001001 0101010101 0101011100 11110111010 1011010111 0101010001 1101000111 1001110111 0111011111 1001010111 1110010101 0101100101 1111010101 1011111101 0111010011 11010110001 1111010111 1101110101 0011111101 1011111101 1111010101 1111011101 11010111101 1101010001 0110111111 0101110101 0101010101 0101010101 1111001111 0011110101 11010110001 0111111101 1001010111 0101011100 01001010001 1011010101 0111010101 1111010111 1011010101 11010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; we, and are repeated.
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