Lincoln & Other Poems
Author of“The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems”
New YorkMcCLURE, PHILLIPS & COMPANY
About this text
Lincoln & Other Poems is in the public domain. This text is taken from Lincoln & other poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #54527; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Edwin Markham, Lincoln & Other Poems, in Lincoln and Other Poems (1901), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #54527, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/markham-lincoln/lincoln-other-poems.html, id L26170.
Form and metre
Lincoln & Other Poems is 4 lines in 2 stanzas of 2 lines each. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Author of | 3 | /˘· |
| “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” | 10 | ······/˘/˘ |
| New York | 2 | ·· |
| McCLURE, PHILLIPS & COMPANY | 7 | ˘//˘/˘˘ |
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