How is the story told??
- It is a ballad- which is in quatrain (4 lines per stanza)
- Form-it is a conversation- call and response between a couple.
- It is subjective
- It is phonetic ( the repetition of drumming drumming)
- Binary opposition of 'brightly' and 'weapons'
- 'O' is an exclamation of dispair, used at the start of every stanza- it's woeful. The reassurance of 'only'
- ABAB regular rhyming pattern and metre
- Setting- in the war, the soldiers are coming for the man.
- The title is missing a question mark.
- The tone changes in stanza 7- 'cunning' - showing the end is coming- change in diction.
- Each line of each stanza sums up and tells the story.
- The story is of someone trying to evade signing up to fight or on the run from the army.
Good points. A clear narrative focus.
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