Part one of term paper
"The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still" is written in alternating seven and six line stanzas. The lines are all pentameters, but there appears to be no rhyme system. Its structure seems less formal than that of "The Soldier". The opening line acts as a shock, bringing images of death and destruction. In only a few words, you seem t ...

Part two of term paper
... I remember things I'd best forget." seems to express a longing for the images to be forgotten. Farther on in this stanza, tents are described as "hives", which draws a comparison between the soldiers and insects, as though they too are part of a collective. In the next stanza, the lines "Gun-thunder leaps and thuds along the ridge; / The spouting shells dig pits in fields of death," seem to recreate the sounds of the weapons. The shells dig pits in the fields as though ready for the wounded men t ...