Analysis of Fall of America
Oh say can you see
The flag that burns here
In the streets filled with blood
For the power and the greed
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
On the backs of your slaves
Through the perilous fight
Watching innocents dying
Through the burning cities
And the haze of tear gas
Gave proof through the night
That our lives were all forfeit
For the bullets you've shot in us, we will stand and rise
For the land of the enslaved, and the home of the corrupt
| Scheme | X X X X X X A X X X A X X X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 01111 001111 1010001 111011 101111 101001 1010010 101010 001111 11101 11010110 1010110111101 10110010011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 463 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
It is sung in the tune of O Say Can You See and basically shows the current events that have happened between 2017 to 2021. But also states that nothing has changed since the founding of this Nation.
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Written on June 13, 2020
Submitted by AthynaAlexandra on March 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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