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
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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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X X X X X X A X X X A X X X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 463 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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