Analysis of Lady Liberty Mourns
America has been hi-jacked
By the mainstream media
Reality being distorted,
—and the truth now scorned
Soundbites of political daggers
Impale a Constitution so wounded
Where patriots are held hostage,
—as Lady Liberty mourns
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2015)
| Scheme | XXAX XAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001111 101100 1010010 00111 11010010 010010110 11001110 1101001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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