The first stanza sets the scene of vaudevue’s death by giving us a feeling that she is somewhere no one wants to be and she has no hope of living. the first stanza keeps on mentioning that she is alone and it shows that she is vulnerable and that she is sitting on a round flat stone. The fact she is alone is horrible and in the first stanza it mentions there was a battle on the field of austerlitz and that she is a female soldier, when you put two and two together it could mean that she was injured in the battle and everyone has left her by herself all alone and cold on this round flat stone.

The poem is subtitled “incident in a future war” because it is set in the future and the poem tells us this. In the second stanza, it states that there is a gas (M.L.5) which makes you loose your memory, we do not have this gas in this day an age so this helps us know that this is set in the future because the gas will be invented in the future as a weapon.

To create a feeling of sadness in the poem, ciara carson used different techniques to imply that the character vaudevue is upset and alone, for example she used rhyme to show that she is upset. “her fingers tap the ground, she is ALONE, at midnight in the moonlight she is sitting alone on a round flat STONE. This is a very good use of the technique rhyme because it gives the reader the feeling that vaudevue is upset and alone because of the words the words she used to rhyme with.