 studying poppies. Here's how you can analyse this poem. In terms of structure this poem is written as four stanzas. The poem reminds us of war by referring to Armistice Sunday which is a reference to Armistice Day which honoured dead World War I soldiers. The Cissura after war graves highlights the speaker's anxiety and grief at letting her son go off to war. The sibilance in smoothed and shirt as well as on John Mont shows that she was trying to be really motherly as she was sending her son off to war. Her words were flattened, rolled, turned into felt and rule of three here shows she was so overcome by grief at letting her son go off to war that she couldn't speak properly. Yet this simile highlights her son's naive excitement at going for combat. He doesn't realise he could die at war. She goes to church graveyard and the Ascendant here highlights that she's feeling grief and anxiety. We're not sure whether her son has died at war. The alliteration and on John Mont here leaves us in a cliffhanger. We're not sure if she's thinking of her dead son or if she's reflecting on him at war.