Poem Analysis

1. The land that sleeps makes the people weep.
2. The land that's strong grows on and on.
3. The land that sings to things passing by 
4. like birds flying in the sky.
5. As evil souls try to break us down,
6. we all join together and stand our ground.
7. All around us, blood stained streets.
8. The horror will not defeat.
9. The soldiers are like a brick wall,
10. standing solid they will not fall
11. Try to break us as hard as you can!
12. United together our nation will stand.
13. The land we love will forever last.
14. The land we love will never pass.
15. The colors red, white, and blue
16. stand for the land that's forever true.

Line 1: "The land that sleeps" is personification. Land cannot sleep, I can barely even sleep!

Line 5: The choice of words when saying "evil souls" suggests an indignant tone because it is expressing anger at anyone trying to break the country down.

Line 7: Describing the streets as "blood stained" paints a vivid and hopefully shocking picture in the mind of a reader

Line 9: Simile "The soldiers are like a brick wall"

Lines 13-4: "The land we love will forever last. The land we love will never pass." is an example of anaphora because of the repetition of "the land we love"

Line 15: "The colors red, white, and blue" is an example of two literary/rhetoric strategies. The first is allusion. Red, white, and blue is alluding you to the American flag. The second is symbollism, the symbol being the American flag itself. The flag connotes freedom and democracy as well as pride in our country. 

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