Analysis of Intro to Chapter III of A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier
Joseph Plumb Martin 1760 (Becket, MA) – 1850 (Stockton Springs, ME)
"Long sleepless nights in heavy arms I stood
And spent laborious days in dust and blood"
- The Iliad by Homer
Campaign of 1777
When troubles fall within your dish,
And things don't tally with your wish:
It's just as well to laugh as cry—
To sing and joke, as moan and sigh;—
For a pound of sorrow never yet
Cancel'd a single ounce of debt.
Scheme | XXX X AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101010111 01010010101 0100110 011 11010111 01110111 11111111 11011101 101110101 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 345 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
The American soldiers of the American Revolution, (a motley crew of city folk, farmers, beggars and gentlemen) armed with little else than the clothes on their backs, faced numerous hardships that mirror those of infantrymen in any time. Though disertion was hardly a recourse, they kept themselves going through the promise that they would win their and their nation's freedom. Imaginably they attempted to hoist their morale in different ways and for Martin, his wartime journaling helped him process the atrocities he witnessed and the near constant, looming threat of death. more »
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