Its suppose to be a poem ???
Its not structured like a poem
It is a famous 1863 poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Whoever posted it did not post it in the normal way for poems. It’s supposed to be based on an incident in Frederick, Maryland, in Sept. 1862 involving Barbara Fritchie and Stonewall Jackson. Mrs. Fritchie died in Dec. 1862 and Jackson in May 1863 so both were dead when the poem was published. Apparently Whittier got the details confused—it involved a different woman in a different town and a different Confederate general.