Comparative analysis of joining the colours and the send-off.

1.  Joining the colours uses an AB AB structure, and the send-off uses an ABA AB structure. These rhyming schemes make the poems flow.

2. Joining the Colours has 4 stanzas of 4 lines, with the 4th of each using only 3 words. The Send-Off has 8 stanzas of 3, and then 2 lines. 

3. both of these poems are about men going off to fight the war. Joining the colours is more about what these people will miss, and The Send-off is more about the soldiers getting on the train to France, to their deaths. 

4. the  author of Joining The Colours is Female, and The Send-off is written by Wilfred Owen, a soldier fighting in the war.

5. Both of the poems use enjamberment. An example from The Send Off is "They sang there way To thee siding shed."An example from Joining The Colours " row on row On high tram tops"

By using enjamberment the poets allows the poem to flow as you read it, it carries on the thought from the previous line. 

Dan, Nathan, Henry