Bayonet Charge

• raw

  in raw-seamed hot khaki,


  Diacope
• hearing

  Bullets smacking the belly out the air -


  Personification
• The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest,


  Mechanised
• In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second?


  Man’s insignificance
• Then the shot-slashed furrows

  Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle,


  Violent / sound symbolism
• King, honour, human dignity, etcetera

  Dropped like luxuries


  Asyndetic, focus on preservation