the man he killed

• writen by thomas hardy
• poem is about his views on war , and how he believes people could of got on
• the poem has a organised structure of 5 stanzas , with 4 lines each
• the poem has a cyclical structure
• it has a ABAB rhyme scheme
• "I shot him dead - because he was my foe"
• "had he and i met by some ancient inn"
• it tells reader war turns potential friends against each other
• it compares to exposure and what were they like