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
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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