Analysis of Intro to Chapter V. Campaign of 1779
Joseph Plumb Martin 1760 (Becket, MA) – 1850 (Stockton Springs, ME)
You may think what you please, sir. I too can think—
I think I can't live without victuals and drink;
Your oxen can't plough, nor your horses can't draw,
Unless they have something more hearty than straw;—
If that is their food, sir, their spirits must fall—
How then can I labour with—nothing at all?
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 11111111111 1111101101 11011111011 01111011011 11111111011 1111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 309 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
About this poem
Soldiers experiencing starvation during wartime, though unfortunate, has hardly been unprecedented. Martin and his comrades covered vast distances on foot having often, no more than some rum and, occasionally, the small game they'd hunted themselves in the forests of the Northeast during the American Revolution. The Commissaries were frequently ill-stocked and incapable of sufficiently supplying the Army in the extenuating engagement. Martin took to poetry to relinquish his suffering and constant anguish. more »
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