1. Paraphrase:
Stanza 1: Legless man is sitting in a wheelchair. He is depressed because he can’t live his life.

Stanza 2: We hear about his lost from the war. He lost his knees. He is thinking back at the time when he had them. Talking about how he won't ever have a woman touch him again.

Stanza 3: "He's lost his colour very far from here" - he lost his soul in the war. He has had his arms and legs blown off.

Stanza 4: He is thinking back to the time when he was playing football. He loved to get hurt on the footballfield. He is lying about his age and is turning himself in as a soldier. That time he thought about the heropicture of being a solider.
The Austria's didn't move him, but the Germans scared him.

Stanza 5: A man asks about his soul, instead of being superficial.

Stanza 6: He is living in different institutes. He is expressing how he felt when he returned home from war. He is going to die.

2. Prosody: 6 stanzas, differen number of lines in each stanza. Irregular rhyme scheme, mostly crossrhymes abab, but there is also aa. No solid rhythm

3. Language and style: Semi poetic. "He would look good in kilts" (5th stanza), the kilt symbolizes Scotland. He is coming from Scotland. Easy to understand.

4. Theme, message:
You are not a hero, when going to war.
He realizes that there is nothing heroic about going to war.

5. Context, parallels:
Wilfred Owens other poems "Dulce et decorum est", that poem has the same negative message about the war.
It is also about the loss you experience after the