This is an analysis of Lincoln by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound,
And all her ways were filled with clam'rous sound.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeffdXgg
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 0101100101 1100011101 1101010101 1101110001 0101000101 11111010101 1001010001 1001110101 1101010101 1101000101 11110111010 1101110101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
with, of
Anaphora
earth
