the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef. there are fourteen total lines. the first twelve are divided into three quatrains where he establishes a theme or problem that he resolves in the last two lines. called the couplet
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Answer:
First off, the speaker is, well… dead. The "gunner" from the title is actually the speaker. Through the use of birth imagery and figurative language, the poem takes us along on the gunner's last flight and down to an ending that most readers don't soon forget. Spoiler alert: The gunner dies, and in a way that's not for the faint of heart. Don't read it right before lunch—unless you're dieting, in which case you should read it before every meal.
Explanation:
1. Desperate, since he need to do a good job or they'll get caught which makes it have a tone of desperation.
2. More neutral, it cant be more approving since "masterful" is way better than "good". It also can't be "shocked" since theres nothing really shocking about the word "good".
