This is an analysis of the poem When Lincoln Died that begins with:
ALREADY Appomattox day
Seemed to our hearts an age away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc cdd ee bbXfc c dXgh iigg j jkXdd jjlld d ggXk XXggg hbbjj ffddm m jjmm jjjje eaa gg kkccd dn njj eejja aoodd kk ccd Xdoo bb jjggj jdd oo ddkkb bff ee ddkkd dppaa jjggj jdX kk Xddkkg g jjoo aajjX b mmaa ddccm mgg dd aaddp pddkk ooooc Xcdd oo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,5,1,4,4,1,5,5,1,4,5,5,5,1,4,5,3,2,5,2,3,5,5,2,3,4,2,5,3,2,5,3,2,5,5,5,3,2,6,1,4,5,1,4,5,3,2,5,5,5,4,2,5,1,6,5,1,4,2,5,3,2,2,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 10111101 11010101 01000101 11010100 11010101 11110001 01010101 010010101 101010101 01010101 111100111 01010100 01111101 1101001001 11111101 101100001 01110100 11010111 01010110 11011101 01110011 01011101 11110101 01010101 11010101 010101101 01010010 010100111 01110111 11011111 11110101 01010101 11010101 01010001 110101001 11011101 110101001 11010110 011100101 11011101 01011100 011101001 01010101 01111101 100111010 11011101 01011111 01011101 01000101 11110101 11110101 11101101 10010101 11001101 01011100 11010111 01011111 110101101 10011101 01010011 11010111 11110101 11011111 11110111 11111101 10010111 11110101 11010001 11011111 110101101 11010101 11110111 101100100 11010101 01010101 10010101 110010101 11111101 01110101 11111111 11011111 11011101 11001101 01001101 11010111 111100101 10010101 11110101 01010111 01000101 10111111 10110111 11010101 01010101 1 01011101 01110101 101101011 01011101 11111111 11010111 11010101 01010101 11111111 01010111 11111111 11110001 10000111 111111011 11111101 10110111 10110101 00011111 11110101 01111101 11111100 11111101 11110111 11010111 010011101 11010111 010100111 11010101 11010001 11010101 10111111 11011111 110101001 01110101 101101001 01111111 01011101 11010101 11010111 11111111 01001101 10011101 1111110111 01110111 11011101 1 11011101 01110111 11011101 11010111 01110101 10010111 111111101 11010111 11011101 10010111 11110111 10011101 10111111 11010101 110100111 10011101 01010101 11100101 11010101 11010101 01110101 10100101 11010101 01000101 11010101 110001001 101100101 110101101 111110101 11010101 01010111 101101001 11111101 11110101 11010001 11100101 110000101 01010111 10111101 110010101 10011111 11111011 11011101 11110111 11111101 1 10111101 010100101 110110101 11011111 10011101 1 11011101 01010101 10011101 11110101 11010111 1 01010101 10110100 010101001 11010111 10110101 1 11010101 01010101 11011101 110010101 01010101 1 01011111 01110111 01100010111 11010111 0101011 11011101 100100101 111010111 11010101 11010101 11010100 11111101 11110101 10111111 11010101 11011101 01110101 11000101 011100111 01010111 0111101 10111110 10110101 101010101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 67
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 248
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, their, as, of, men, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, and, that are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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