) Note in the above quoted phrase, "How he died and why he died" the line is an anapest, or two weakly accented syllables followed by one strong stress. Anapests are often been used by narrative to give a feel of singsong silliness, as in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," but in this case, the jingoistic tone of many of the phrases of the poem is used to convey a sense of a patriotic song with a matching and militaristic beat. Kipling's frequent use of anapests give the entire poem a quality of a marching tune, like "For a goat may butt, and a worm may sting, / and a child will sometimes stand;/but a poor dead soldier of the King/Can never lift a hand." The marching quality of these phrases makes the scene painted by the words sound even more tragic and ironic, while the occasional use of dactyls, one strong stress, followed by two weakly accented or unaccented syllables, in setting the scene, makes such strident verse even more sharply set off. "They snout the bushes and stones aside/and dig till they come to it," reads one dactyl, before the wild dogs attack the...
Feminine ending, the attachment of an unaccented syllable to the end of the last iambic foot of the line, such as: "They snout the bushes and stones aside" also make masculine endings such as "They tug the corpse to light" even more striking, another example of how contrasting tones may be struck in a relatively regularly phrased poem. Of course, the nightshirts of the soldiers that are tugged are syncedoches, of course, for the flesh of the men, just as the men themselves are parts to represent the whole of the entire unappreciated British army abroad, in Kipling's eyes. Support the British soldier or else, warns the final lines, "Nor do they defile the dead man's name -- / That is reserved for his kind."
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