The sonnet on painful love is written in Shakespearean style by dividing the sestina into a quatrain and a final couplet. The first stanza reflects his love that "must soon go" (1) bringing attention to English society during the "bloodshot years" (2) in which an entire generation of young people were lost in the war effort. In the last line of the first stanza the speaker understands the price paid by this generation of Englishmen as he notes that "their numbers will never return" (4) suggesting the overall loss of youth in England after the war. The second stanza presents the mental conflict that the speaker is going through, on one hand she is trying to be a little reserved and courageous for her lover who is about to leave, but also trying to absorb and fix in her memory every precious moment with his beloved. because he knows that he could be "the last of all" (8). In the quatrain the speaker lists the 'last' and remarks: "Even serving love, they are our mortality" (11) suggesting that in serving the love of one's country in the end it is the people, the everyday populous like these two lovers who endure the consequences and desperation that death brings with it. In the final couplet the speaker concludes with the comforting thought that love knows no limits. His love will never end and