Ww1 poem

The poem is an Italian Sonnet "love poem about war"
It's a love poem to war entitled "Peace" which is to the whole poem ironic
Dieting for your country in war brings spiritual peace which is why the poem is called "Peace
The whole poem is about, going to war brings you inner peace, everything bad becomes good

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour,     A

      And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping!    B

With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,        A

      To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,                    B

Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary;                  C 

      Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move,              D (slant rhyme)

And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,                     C 

      And all the little emptiness of love!                                       D (slant rhyme)

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,   E

      Where there’s no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,             F

            Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;                   G

Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there,               E

      But only agony, and that has ending;                                          F

            And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.                  G

     = Rhyme

     = Repetition

     = Similie
     = Listing
     = Juxtaposition and Listing
Ab = Personification
Ab = Metaphor