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Form and Structure

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  • ABBAC, first four lines establish a rhyme pattern that is broken down by final line, reflects the building tension and anticlimax
  • Pararhyme, permanent sense of being on edge, soldiers are denied the satisfaction of closure
  • Cyclical, repetitive nature of war, the situation doesn’t change
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‘Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed’

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  • ‘ghost’ - death is inevitable, the only way home is death or through dreams, links to last stanza that they’re already forgotten
  • ‘glimpsing (…) fires’ - metaphor for hope, out of reach
  • ‘glozed’ - combines ‘gloss, glow snd glaze,’ sense of shining, dream like imagery
  • Assonance of the awkward ‘o’ sound, represents the difficulty to take their minds off the battlefield, constant mental strain
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‘Fingering stealth come feeling for our faces -
We cringe in holes’

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  • Personification
  • Could suggest the weather is pointing at them, mocking them
  • Compared to assassins that stalk them, idea that weather is biggest enemy
  • ‘feeling for our faces’ - language often associated with lovers, ironic, weather was the unexpected enemy
  • ‘cringed’ - varied verb, animalises them, they are young men in their prime but it makes them seem old and frail
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‘Half-known faces. All their eyes are ice’

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  • ‘half known faces’ - sinister image, almost unrecognisable after the toll of the war
  • ‘their’ - beginning of stanza he uses ‘us’ now he is distancing himself
  • ‘eyes are ice’ - metaphor, the men are numb to the horror of what they’re doing, emotional detachment as they will likely die
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