1. The first stanza foreshadows Vaudevue death as she’s wondering around on a previous battlefield in Austerlitz. The setting is thought to be a cold night where the girl is supposedly reminiscing on past events. By the poet making the scene at midnight with the girl all alone in an area full of history of conflict and war it shows vulnerability of her position as most deaths happen in open space through the night. ‘She is sitting alone on a round flat stone’ shows that she’s exposed to any attack as she’s not conscious about the surroundings around her.

2. In the second stanza there is a dialogue where the enemy attacker has coded the weapon which strike upon the target being Vaudevue as ‘M.L.5’ In the world we live today there hasn’t been a weapon to be recognized as ‘M.L.5′ and let alone to be able to dismantle and disable a person. It shows that the poem is set in the future as this sort of attack is not prone as for today.

3. Repitition- Come on, come back’ the repitition there creates sadness as both the vulnerable girl and the enemy sentinel both repeat the same lyrics though they’re fighting against each other. It is sad that the same kind fight each other as we share the same qualities.