![]() “We know he had the tune in mind because the rhyme and meter exactly fit it,” says Marc Leepson, author of the Key biography What So Proudly We Hailed. Although Key was an amateur poet and not a songwriter, when he composed his verses, he intended them to accompany a popular song of the day. “ The Star Spangled-Banner” was not a poem set to a melody years later. ![]() Francis Scott Key intended his verses to be song lyrics, not poetry. ![]()
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