[Miss Marple]

You need to read it like a sentence.

"Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous night, o'er the ramparts we hailed, were so gallantly gleaming?

It is a question...can you see that which we hailed, streaming over the ramparts?

[Miss Marple]

That second "gleaming" should read "streaming."

[floriduh voter]

Good idea. I tried to compartmentalize like x-42. Thanks to everyone who has assisted me with this ramparts query. Go Dubya. And then for a Threepeat, Go Jeb.