The first stanza set the scene for Vaudevue’s death, when the first stanza says ‘Left by the ebbing tide of battle’ it display that Vaudevue was left behind in the battlefield. She also sat alone on a flat stone. The language used in the stanza was repetition when it quotes ‘ she is ‘  when the poet uses the word ‘ she is ‘ he describes what Vaudevue is doing.

Features of the poem which portrays with the idea that the war has taken place in the future, when the poet added ‘ Incident in a future war’ which gives us a signal that the poem could be based on the future as well as when the poet state ‘ M.L.5 ‘ suggest that it was set in the future. At the present moment the word ‘ M.L.5 ‘ does not exist. M.L.5 is a weapon that can take someone memory, the weapon has a terrible affect on humans.

Techniques used in the poem were repetition ‘ alone ‘ and ‘ she is ‘ was used in the first stanza. The use of the repetition of alone it makes her vunrelable and fragile.