Analysis of Lincoln Monument: Washington
Langston Hughes 1902 (Joplin) – 1967 (New York City)
Let's go see Old Abe
Sitting in the marble and the moonlight,
Sitting lonely in the marble and the moonlight,
Quiet for ten thousand centuries, old Abe.
Quiet for a million, million years.
And yet a voice forever
Against the
Timeless walls
Of time—
Old Abe.
| Scheme | ABBAX XXXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (50%) |
| Metre | 11111 100010001 10100010001 10111010011 101010101 0101010 010 101 11 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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