bayonet charge

• "in what cold clockwork of the stars" - harsh alliteration
• "bullets smacking the belly out of the air" - violent imagery
• "king, honour, human dignity, etcetera" - listing
• "stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge" - lack of control
• "the shot-slashed furrows/ threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame" - similie/ gruesome image
• "the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye" - contrast
• "sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest" - similie/ dehumanises soldier
• "he lugged a riflie numb as a smashed arm" - simile/ he is vulnerable
• "suddenly he awoke and was running" - highlights chaos of war