Structure

• Structure in War Photographer

  • 4 stanzas
  • 6 lines each
  • Controlled and ordered poem
  • Reflecting the narrators job
• Rhyme scheme in war photographer

  • Internal rhyme
  • ‘with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’
  • Rhyme on one line quickens the pace
  • Represent the speed in which readers forget the dangers of war
• Cyclical Structure in War photographer

  • Begins with narrator coming back from trip
  • Ends with him going back out to war
  • Suggests futility of his job
  • Trying to have an impact on people about war