What are the literary techniques used in the poem "The Soldier"?

Brooke's "The Soldier" is written
in sonnet form, meaning that it utilizes many literary techniques typical of this type of
poetry. The lines are written in iambic pentameter, meaning that each has five feet,
or five emphasized beats. You will understand this better if you read each line
aloud, counting out the places where you would naturally add emphasis when speaking. Brooke also
uses a sonnet rhyme scheme, but, interestingly, he varies this rhyme scheme between the first
eight lines (the ostet) and the second six (the sestet). In the first eight lines of the sonnet,
Brooke uses the Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme, ababcdcd. In the closing
six lines, he uses a Petrarchan rhyme scheme, efgefg.

The key concept in Brooke's poem is theof England, imagined as a mother who "bore,
shaped, [and] made aware" all these young men who are now heading off to die for their
country. Brooke uses repetition to emphasize England as the reason for which the young men
fight: the word "England" is repeated four times, and "English" is repeated
twice.

We can also detect the use of , particularly in the first octet, in
which Brooke alliterates on "th": "think," "this,"
"that," "there," etc.