the soldiers because they may never see them again. The reader is suppose to feel sorry for these "poor girls" because the reader knows that many of the soldiers are going to die in the war.
             The mood of this poem is a mixture of the happiness of the soldiers and the dread of the observers watching. This leads to a tone of irony. In stanza 1 there is a mixture of happiness and fear. The soldiers are happy because they are all marching in step. In line 2 it starts getting frightening at the end because the young and healthy soldi
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