Analysis of Oh America



OH AMERICA!! The land of the brave.  
The land where innocent people found a sad firery grave.
OH AMERICA!! Is this really war?  How did it find its way to cross our once peaceful shore?
Without a warning or a single clue...
Black thick skies replaced our sky of blue.
OH AMERICA!! You stand for freedom-for one and for all.
So why-one by one do our great structures fall?
Do you hear our screams of pain and fear?  
Or do they simply fall sadly upon deaf ear?
OH AMERICA!!  Your stars, your stripes your red white and blue.
Just won't be destroyed.  We'll all stand by you.
United we stand divided we fall.
OH AMERICA!! A great home to us all.
Stand up for what's right!
Stand up for what's ours!
Stand up with a fight!
Be proud of your scars!
OH AMERICA!! The land of brave.
Let the world know we will not be enslaved.
We won't let our flag feel fire, nor our land host death!
We stand strong and we stand united!
WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
We all shall unite and conquer and rise above the rest.

WRITTEN BY PEGGY


Scheme AAXBBCCXXBBCCDXDXAXXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010001101 0111001010111 101001110111111111101101 0101010101 111110111 101001111011011 111111101101 1111011101 111101100111 10100111111101 1110111111 0101101011 10100011111 11111 111110 11101 11111 101000111 1011111101 111101110110111 111011010 110010110100 1111010010101 10110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,042
Words 225
Sentences 31
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 23, 1
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 388
Words per stanza (avg) 100

About this poem

So I wrote this poem at work when 9/11 happened

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Submitted by mamajkiss on July 25, 2022

Modified on March 27, 2023

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