Analysis of Our Heritage Dies
We’re losing America
while losing our minds
Our spirits in hiding
our souls hard to find
The nation in freefall
all fingers to point
One side at the other
common values disjoint
We’re losing America
in front of our eyes
A narcissists poison
our heritage dies
Each part is now greater
than the sum or the whole
What our patriots died for
lost, forgotten—untold
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2018)
| Scheme | Ax xx xb cb Ad xd cx xx c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100100 110101 1010010 101111 01001 11011 111010 101001 0100100 011101 0110 101001 111110 101101 11010011 101001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 405 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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