THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
HISTORY OF THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The Star-Spangled Banner” has four verses, although the second, third, and fourth verses are not commonly performed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The national anthem has four verses. All four verses conclude with the same line: “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” (In 1861, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a fifth verse to support the Union cause in the Civil War and denounce “the traitor that dares to defile the flag of her stars.”)
Detailed explanation-3: -Though written in 6/8 time, The Star-Spangled Banner is unusually adaptable and has been transformed into 3/4 time. Military bands marched to it in 4/4 time, the time signature used by Whitney Houston in her famous 1991 version.
Detailed explanation-4: -More than 80 Anacreontic lyrics appeared in print before 1820. As a poetic form, it was unique. It features eight-line stanzas-four is typical-and these eight lines contain nine rhymes.
Detailed explanation-5: -So when Key references the “foul footstep’s” of the “hireling and slave” who “no refuge could save” from “the gloom of the grave” in the third verse, he’s referring to the killing of Colonial Marines.