1.the first stanza sets the death by saying that Vandevue sits on the flat stone all by herself and the word alone is repeated more than twice and that gives me an idea that no-one will witness her death and when it says she taps the ground, why would she tap the ground by herself sitting on the rock.
2.The the way the landscape is described it gives me a idea that it is set in the future because the word ominous is used and ominous means something bad is going to happen and it gives me an impression that this is a future poem and it gives the reader an insight of what is expected.
3.RHYMES OF SADNESS:
1:Sitting alone at midnight on a round flat stone.Is sad because she is a girl soldier sitting alone and a flat stone without knowing she might die.
2.M.L.5 has left her just alive suggests that