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Poem analysis Siegfried Sasson SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack... More

Poem analysis Siegfried Sasson SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go This poem is composed by three stanzas, each stanza has four lines and its rhyme is determined in the way: aa-bb, cc-dd, ee-ff. The first line of the poem give us three important words: simple soldier boy , the war is not a play where people go to play with “flower’s pistols” , the people go there to destroy others and destroy theirselves, that is not an honorable job to someone, in this way he criticizes the early age of the soldiers in the First Wold War1 . This is a boy which is known by the poet, so it is evid Less