how the saint whistled and spat in the flames, / how the dictator strutting and stuttering film / blew out his brains, how the children waved their little hands from the trains.
and by name, Bannockburn, Passchendaele, / Babi Yar, Vietnam.
the soldiers spitting, spears in the earth:
in Jerusalem, Constantinople, Sicily;
bones in a bed, not a tooth/ in her head, half dead
alliteration
allusions
internal rhyme
asyndeton
anaphora
