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In the poem “The Man He Killed”, the poet (Thomas Hardy) uses twenty lines to communicate to readers that war is unnatural and “quaint”. The poem is made up of five quatrains (each of which is a quatrain) of equal length, and five sentences of varying lengths. The first stanza is united by the cross rhyme that links line one (“met”) to line three (“wet”), and line 2 (“inn”) to line four (“nipperkin”), and contains one sentence. The second stanza is united by the cross rhyme that links line five (“infantry”) to line seven (“me”), and line six (“face”) to line eight (“place”), and contains one sentence. The third stanza is united by the cross rhyme that links line nine (“because”) to line eleven (“was”), and line ten (“foe”) to line eight (“although”), and contains half of a sentence. The fourth stanza is united by the cross rhyme that links line thirteen (“perhaps”) to line fifteen (“traps”), and line fourteen (“I”) to line sixteen (“why”), and completes the sentence in the previous stanza. The fifth and final stanza is united by the cross rhyme that links line seventeen (“is”) to line nineteen (“is”), and line eighteen (“down”) to line twenty (“crown”), and contains two sentences. Hardy uses End-Stopped Lines (in lines four, eight, sixteen, seventeen, and twenty) and Caesura (multiple times throughout the poem) to slow down the pace of the poem, and occasionally uses a Run-On Line/ Enjambement (in lines one, three, twelve, eighteen) to speed up the pace. Following the norm, this poem’s shortest sentence is the most tenacious one as well, line seventeen (“Yes: quaint and curious war is!”) leaves a powerful effect on the reader and almost completely summarizes the entire poem and the authors message. The violent title of the of this poem allows us to conclude that tit focuses on the violence and abnormalities of war.

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In the poem “The Man He Killed” written by poet Thomas Hardy, describes that war is not the result and is bad, the structure consists of 5 stanzas 20 lines and all are quatrains. The rhyme in the first stanza is a cross rhyme (ab,ab) while the second stanza an irregular verse(a,b,a).

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In this poem, The Man He Killed, the poet (Thomas Hardy) explains throughout 5 stanzas how effective, bad and unnatural war is. This poem is made of 5 stanzas each containing quatrains. The poem is united with cross rhyme, each quatrain having their own separately - line 1 (met) line 3 (wet) - line 2 (inn) line 4 (nipperkin). Throughout the poem the poet describes war as “quaint” (line 17) and goes on about how it effects relationships, friendships and communications from being built. In conclusion we know that this poem was written against war, and was made to inspire peace and the building of a better community.

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In the  poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas hardy is sending a wise message through five quatrains. War is weird and strange, it tells the readers that war is unexpectable and that’s understood by the shortest sentence, “quaint and curious war is!” This poem consists 20 lines and all five quatrain stanzas include cross rhymes, from this poem we conclude that this poem “The Man He Killed”

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In the poem “The Man He Killed”, by Thomas Hardy , he uses five quatrains to show that war is unnatural and “quaint”. The poem has twenty lines and is divided into five quatrains and five sentences, but not the same length. The poem uses a cross rhyme scheme (ab, ab), for example he uses it at line one (met) and line three (wet). In the poem the poet uses “quaint” (line seventeen) to describe war, he also goes on to talk about how it ruins relationships. In conclusion the poem was written to show people that war is unnatural and “quaint”.

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In the poem “The Man He Killed”, the poet (Thomas Hardy) uses five Stanzas to communicate to readers that war is abnormal and “quaint”. The poem is made up of five quatrains of equal length and five sentences of varying lengths, the stanzas are divided into four Cross Rhyme Scheme

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In the poem “ The Man He Killed”  the poet Thomas Hardy uses five quatrains to explain to the reader that war is bad. Every stanza has four lines, the whole poem has 20 lines and 5 sentences, every stanza has cross rhyme

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In the poem “The Man He Killed” the poet Thomas Hardy uses five quatrains to communicate to readers that war is “quaint”. There are twenty lines throughout the poem, five stanzas or quatrains, which shows the reader that it’s not a sonnet as it doesn’t consist of fourteen lines. The rhyme scheme throughout the poem is cross rhyme for example in line one and three the poet uses “met “ and “wet” and in line two and four the poet uses “inn” and “nipperkin”. The subject of how war is “quaint” is deeply explored in the poem.

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In Thomas Hardy’s poem, ‘The Man He Killed’ the poet explains why war is abnormal and unnatural in 5 quatrains. The poem’s rhyme scheme is cross rhyme.

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In the poem “The Man He Killed” by the poet Thomas Hardy ,he uses 5 quatrains and structure to explain to the readers why he thinks war is quaint and unnatural. He uses structure to communicate to the readers about his belief about war and the negativity of it. He used 5 different poetry elements like using 5 stanzas and 4 lines in each stanza which is referred to as a quatrain. He also uses the cross rhyme scheme. The poet also uses enjambment to speed up the rhythm of the poem but also used caesura to slow down the pace of the poem.

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In the poem “The Man He Killed” by (Thomas Hardy) he uses five quatrains to explain to the reader why he thinks that war is “quaint” and unnatural. First of all the poem consists of five stanzas and four lines each. The first Stanza has cross rhyme for e.g (a,b,a,b)

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The Man he killed is an interesting poem discussing the controversial topic of war it was written by the English poet Thomas hardy. it contains 20 lines and 5 stanzas the way it is writte is short and straight to the point. it starts off with 2 sentences both 4 lines long and then the next sentence contains 8 lines however the next sentence is short and sweet containing one line. the poem is interesting and greatly written.

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In the poem “The man he killed” is a sad poem written by Thomas hardy that talks about a soldier that killed an other soldier, he wrote this poem to send the people message of how bad and ”quaint” war is. The poem uses 5 stanzas with 4 lines each that means it’s a quatrain poem, the poem has 20 lines. There are lots of rhymes as he used the cross rhyme method, the author a lot of end stop line, enjambment and caesura.

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The poem "The man he killed" by Thomas hardy explains to the reader why war is unnatural and bad using five quatrains.all of the the stanzas in the poem have a cross rhyme scheme.An evidence that the poet is trying to communicate the idea that war is unnatural and weird is line 17 " yes; quaint and curious war is!". In that line the poet is saying that war is weird and unnatural because people who would be friends sitting in a bar are fighting and killing eachother.

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In the Poem “The Man He Killed” the poet (Thomas Hardy )uses five equal quatrains explaining why war is unnatural and pdestructive. In total the whole poem consists of 5 sentences however not all of the same length and twenty lines throughout the whole poem. The rhyme scheme in the Poem is a cross rhyme (A,B,A,B); “met”,”wet” (line 1&3) and “inn”,”nipperkin” (line 2&4) this rhyme scheme of cross rhyme is continued throughout this whole poem. The topic of how war is a destructive and “quaint” matter has been throughly explored in the Poem.

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Thomas Hardy’s, “The Man He Killed”, is a 5-stanza poem expressing how strange and bad war is. Every stanza used in this poem is a quatrain but not all of the sentences are the same length. The first two sentences are four lines long but the third sentence is 8 lines long. The poet deliberately does this to achieve enjambment. In total, Hardy used five sentences. Each stanza is not only a quatrain but also includes cross rhyme.

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In the poem "The Man He Killed" by Thomas hardy a great poem demonstrating the use of detailed sructure using 5 quatrains to explain to the reader why he thinks war is unnatural and bad. The first two sentences include 4 lines each while sentence 3 and 4 include 8 and 1 sentences each respectively and sentence 5 is like 1 and 2 with 4 lines. The poet sends us clear message using these 5 quatrains which informs us how war and violence is weird"quaint". The last stanza displays clear evidence to why war is "uaint" as lines 18 and 19. The message the poet is trying to deliver is clear we should think that war is weird and that it is unnatural and he'd done a great job doing that

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Thomas Hardy’s poem, ‘The Man He Killed’, mainly revolved around the abnormality and negativity of war and what the poet thought of it, to interpret that, he used many different poetry elements inclusive of line breaks, quatrains, and many more. Firstly, the poem consisted of five stanzas and four lines per stanza, which is often referred to as a Quatrain, the poem also had five sentences and a large amount of end stopped lines and or line breaks at least twice in each stanza, there was an end stopped line in 13 out of the 19 lines, and the poet also used the element referred to as ‘Caesura’, it is where there is a line break in the middle of the line, that was in only 4 out of the 19 lines in the poem

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In the poem ‘The Man He Killed’, the poet Thomas Hardy uses five quatrains to explain to the reader how war is abnormal and bad. The poem consists of twenty lines. Every stanza in this poem is a quatrain and consists of a cross rhyme scheme. The poet uses a eight line sentence, in stanzas three and four, to speed up the pace of the poem. There are five sentences in the poem. Thomas uses caesuras like the colon in the middle of line eleven and a semicolon in line seventeen. He also uses end-stopped lines like in lines five and six; and run on lines (enjambement) like in lines twelve and eighteen, to speed up the pace of the poem. The meaning of the whole poem comes from the shortest sentence of it which is in line seventeen, “Yes; quaint and curious war is” making it the most powerful line of the poem as well.