Analysis of Thinkin' Lincoln



Once upon a time came a man named Lincoln.

He spent most of his time just thinkin'.

Though not schooled in the formal sense.
He educated himself to the highest tense.

For the longest time he felt like a flop,
but eventually that came to a stop.

He became the most powerful man in the land.

And eventually was to be the most grand.

With his brains constantly working, he was able to change the lurking, issues of the time, which were bad,
Into something for which most could be glad.

So if one thinks of failure,
Just think of Lincoln and his grandeur.


Scheme X X AA BB C C DD XX
Poetic Form
Metre 10101101110 111111110 11100101 11000110101 1010111101 10100011101 101011001001 001000111011 1111001011101101010101101 0110111111 1111110 111100101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 569
Words 125
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by blaised28745d on November 27, 2023

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