SOUND: of woodchucks being gasses

Maxine Kumin's Woodchucks is a peculiar poem in that it plays on the act of killing with al light hearted approach. Its ABCACB rhyme scheme keeps the poem flowing, almost like a melody. This contrasts the underlying meaning of the poem and its allusion in the end of Nazi Germany and the gassing of the jews. This in part ease in sound and flow reflects upon the ease of the nazis to perform a genocide with out questioning the authority how commanded it. Quick, quiet, easy, and had to be done. Luckily for the wood chucks, the whole gassing situation "didn't turn out right."