Analysis of Stars & Stripes
Out of great struggle
comes even greater opportunity
Each threat being glue
and a tie that binds
With noble purpose
we define our highest calling
Freedom in our blood
—by our will refined
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
‘To America, On The 4th Of July’
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11110 110100100 11101 00111 11010 101101010 100101 110101 0100101 10100101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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