[OkiMusashi]

"Musically speaking, I'm not really a big fan of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner with its awkward prosody and melisma-clogged penultimate line, but the lyric does contain one big idea - that a "land of the free" has to be also, at some level, a "home of the brave". - Mark Steyn

It works for me.

[AnAmericanMother]

Steyn calls THAT a melisma? TWO notes? He should try the final line of O Sacrum Convivium if he wants a real one. I don't have it in front of me, but it's at least twelve.