Abraham Lincoln is my name

Abraham Lincoln 1809 ( Hodgenville, Kentucky, ) – 1865 (Petersen House, Washington, D.C., United States)



Abraham Lincoln is my name
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both hast and speed
and left it here for fools to read

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Written by President Abraham Lincoln sometime during his teenage years.

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Submitted by ThatPoetryGuy on April 26, 2024

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Scheme AABB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 125
Words 28
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. Throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln was an avid reader of poetry. As a teenager, however, Lincoln also began to cultivate an interest in writing poetry. Lincoln's oldest surviving verses, written when he was between fifteen and seventeen years old, are brief squibs that appear in his arithmetic book. more…

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