'Oh! Jesus Christ! I'm hit,' he said; and died.
Whether he vainly cursed or prayed indeed,
The Bullets chirped-In vain, vain, vain!
Machine-guns chuckled,-Tut-tut! Tut-tut!
And the Big Gun guffawed.
Another sighed,-'O Mother, -Mother, - Dad!'
The capitalised ‘Bullets’ represent the first personified weaponry, They have their own special ‘language’; they ‘chirp’ and do so ‘in vain, vain, vain’, as if dissatisfied with killing. This highly original mode of expression has impact. The brutality conveyed in terms of casual mischief is unexpected. 
