Analysis of Ode to a fallen soldier

There he lies;
Death in his eyes.
The light of life gone,
Too soon, so quickly,
       gone.
He will never know...
Victory we shall see,
Children he sired yet unborn.
A free people for which he died,
         gone.
His handsome color faded;
Death's pall stiffening limbs,
Mouth shut rigidly against pain.
The small shell fragment jutting...
From within his brain.
          gone.