Explication of Written Poem 4

This poem is a Shakespearean Sonnet. It gives an insight into war in the trenches. it is presented as if a soldier had written it after the event had happened. The rhyming couplet at the end forces the reader as the speaker does in the poem of why we wage war when it can be so cruel and ugly. I want to point out the personification in line 2, "Bombs rained over us with such might and height." Also, a simile in line 5 comparing the captain to a lion. Repetition and assonance in line 9. I wrote this poem to show the uglier side of war and to question the reader on their opinion about it.