This is an analysis of the poem Abraham Lincoln of Rock Spring Farm that begins with:

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Along the Wilderness Road, through Cumberland Gap,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccXdefg XhhXgidj klfafghf X lkmjXcgh gXdcXXgh cahXglgf X fjhgcmnX dlfmnbik XggXfggg X goccgXfh alXkgddX dgceghXX a odglfifc Xcfnhllg XcXfllcX a hdXgcflX jhjnnbXh XhXngdXa X mcghhndf jlXfXdcX glnXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 010100111001 01110101111 0101110101 11111000101 0101011101 11111001001 1001111001 1101010101 11101011111 01011010101 01011111101 01000101110 0101000101 0101010101 01010100010 1101101011 1101111111 011101111 11011101010 1101110111 10000111011 110111011011 011100101001 1001011101 1 11010101010 1101011111 01010101010 11111100101 01111101010 00110110001 0111110101 0001010111 01010111010 010100111010 01000111110 01010101100 010101111 1101000100 11110000101 1110010101 11011101110 0101110111 01001110100 0101010111 11001100111 11011101101 11110100001 110110010100 1 01010101001 0001110101 10001010100 1101000111 01110010111 10011101110 01000101010 11011100101 10010101011 01010111010 1101010111 11011101010 11110110110 10010101001 0110111101 1001000101 1011010100 01000101010 0101011101 1011111001000 01011101110 1010101001 1101010101 110110101001 1 0111010111 0100010111 110010100110 100111101010 11110101010 111100111000 11011001011 1101110101 11010101101 110100101110 11010001110 11110101010 10110011111 010101001010 1101011111 110110010100 01111101001 11111101011 101010111101 1001011111 0100011111 100100110010 101010101001 0101011101000 1 01010100111 0101010111 010011010101 110111001001 01001110101 1101110111 11001110111 1101110101 10100101110100 01110111010 1101010001 11010100110 1101110111 010101100010 01111001001 1101011111 101011101110 11010101010 1100101110100 01110111010 01101111010 0111010111 0101001100 0001010101000 1 11010100101 11000101011 10010101110 1101110101 11011010101 1001010101 1101110001 1110010100 10010010101 0101011100 0111001101 01010101010 01110101010 0111011101 010010101000 01001011110 0100100101100 01001111110 1111011101 01001101010 110111000101 11011101010 1101010101 1101011101 1 011101111110 11011101110 0100101011110 110010010111 11001100101 11011001010 110110001110 010110110010 1011011101 1001010001 0101110101 0101011101 01010101110 11010001110 110100110101 01011011010 1111111101 11110111011 01010101010 111111101110 1101101111100 110111101010 11011101010 11010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 181
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, her, new, what, it's, to, legs are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, and, it's, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines word is repeated).

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