Shakespearean Sonnet: Abraham Lincoln Poem by Gayathri Seetharam

Shakespearean Sonnet:
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Source of reference (Wikipedia)
The sonnets are almost all constructed of three quatrains (four-line stanzas)followed by a final couplet. The sonnets are composed in iambic pentameter, the meter used in Shakespeare's plays.
The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets, or English sonnets, or Elizabethan sonnets. Often, at the beginning of the third quatrain occurs the volta ("turn") , where of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany.[30]
There are a few exceptions: Sonnets 99,126, and 145. Number 99 has fifteen lines. Number 126 consists of six couplets, and two blank lines marked with italic brackets; 145 is in iambic tetrameters, not pentameters. In one other variation on the standard structure, found for example in sonnet 29, the rhyme scheme is changed by repeating the second (b)rhyme of quatrain one as the second (f)rhyme of quatrain three.
An iambic pentameter is a line of verse which has an unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllables. Eg: Two households, The Beethoven symphony. All poetry by this definition is iambic pentameter for there are articles and prepositions and conjunctions which precede and come after long words.
Abraham Lincoln
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Abraham Lincoln was born a poor man in an idyllic cabin in the Kentucky woods
Be that may, he became an iconic President of the USA
I can imagine his soul saying: I am a product of the era I was born in, a voracious reader
And in the work area, a busy bee;

If he has said: Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty,
And dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,
It can be said of him that he never caved into the pressure from the Southerners
And in fact he decimated the slave population;

I am having an epiphany, a revelation of sorts, that Abe and his wife were like my husband and I,
And if togetherness is a factor, shared common interests and passions had fashioned their lives
And both of them did not have a dislike or disdain for ebony coloured people
For racism was the norm of the day;

Let it be noted that Abe Lincoln closed his Gettysburg address with its relevance to the future goals of war, "that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
And I shall end by saying a prayer to all those gallant, brave men and women who have fought in wars through the ages, May their souls rest in peace.
Acknowledgements:
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I would also like to thank the Internet for the picture that I am going to include. Please note that the sculpture is in marble and I would like to add this verse from Sonnet 55 from Shakespeare's Sonnets:
"Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme"

And add that this verse should be true of my poem on Abraham Lincoln.