Analysis of Intro to Chapter VII. Campaign of 1781
Joseph Plumb Martin 1760 (Becket, MA) – 1850 (Stockton Springs, ME)
I saw the plundering British bands,
Invade the fair Virginian lands.
I saw great WASHINGTON advance
With Americans and troops of France;
I saw the haughty Britons yield,
And stack their muskets on the field.
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 110100101 01010101 11110001 101000111 11010101 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 207 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
Six years into the skirmish for independence from England and with winter approaching, "the arm of British power in America" had been dislocated with the capture of Cornwallis and his acolytes but Martin's excursions were yet to conclude.
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