Why America?



All people want to go to America
What is there it can give?
The sky scrapers, Harvard and Stanford?
They said it's the sweet Alabama
Or are you heading north to Alaska
You can get the oranges from California
And catch the sunshine in Florida
If native American will be in Oklahoma
The Big skies there lie in Montana
The whole other country is in Texas
And re-discover America in Nevada
Lovers, you go to Virginia
All of you gather in Maryland
Say Big Helloo in Idaho
To the Islands of Aloha..Hawaii
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Submitted on August 21, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCAAAAAADAAEFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 484
Words 93
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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