Analysis of America’s heart

James schanne 1958 (Vineland)



America’s heart is resiliency
Drumming the beat of freedom imperfect
Yet from its seed an ever growing tree
With many limbs and roots to preserve it

Against the many storms that curse its ways
 fire and brimstone in hand and on the tongue
from condemnation will rise better days
 We’ll respond in time climbing rung by rung

Flag like a phoenix and populace too
I know it seems we’re becoming unglued
We need to be civil as we argue
It’s always worse when it’s a blood feud

Let us be brothers where differences proud
Where all Americans so we’ll be loud


Scheme AXAX BCBC DEDE FF
Poetic Form
Metre 0100110100 1001110010 1111110101 1101011011 0101011111 10010010101 101011101 1010110111 1101001001 1111001001 1111101110 11111011 11110110001 1101001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 570
Words 107
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 25

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A poem about America’s essence

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Submitted by Jim522 on May 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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